Dorr Timeline 9/05 1911 1912 -Jr. letter (10/24)th Deary -Geg. - of Junden fargest nets re land abstract for Seel -HCTPR Charter theatened Hacbor offer to us govt. GBD to S.a.Eliot = -Po of Porri sittings (1/11/24) e Liss. Piper in Pric Soc. for Psycheal he - Visith May - Helbert llerry STATE BOARD OF HEALTH AUGUSTA, MAINE January 27, 1911. Hon. L. B. Deasy, 3ar Harbor. Maine. Dear Sir:- the judi- Ja Avenue. 19-1911 ate boa 18 Commonwealth .ic wate rented. 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Mr Charles Shea, House of Representatives, Augusta, Maine. Dear Sir, I have been asked to write to you and state my attitude upon the automobile question at Bar Harbor, with regard to the bill now before the legislature. I am a citizen of Eden, as you know, and my interests -- both of long association and of property -- are such as to make me strongly desirous that no mistake be made in a matter that I feel to be of grave importance to the future welfare of the town. I have given it much thought accordingly and have dis- cussed it thoroughly with others, both townspeople and summer resi- dents. To admit aut omobiles onto the general driving roads of the town would do great harm at the present time, I am convinced, and result in a serious setback to the immediate prosperity of the town. On the other hand I believe that a mistake would equally be made by continuing to exclude, wholly from the town the people who now go travelling throughout the state by automobile, on pleasure trips in summer. I think that the prosperity of the town and its life as a resort would be increased and stimulated by giving such people, whose number is increasing constantly, opportunity to come and go. I also feel that with the present feeling in the town such exclusion, if maintained, could not be permanent or long; that it would be apt to 2 result in suddenly throwing the whole town open in a way that could not but result in serious injury to it; and even if it did not so result, would still cause constant agitation and an uncertainty with regard to the future which would do scarcely less. I therefore took the step this fall, upon my own responsibility, of having a new road surveyed by which automobiles could reach the town and leave it without following any of the existing town roads and injuring their pleasantness or safety. This road, which I felt would be a desirable one in itself for the town to add to those which it already has and which would keep automobiles entirely off the present ones for a distance of ten miles from the village, ex- cept for a few necessary crossings, I have felt to be the wisest so- lution of the problem for the present and one which would best serve both interests and keep the town from any serious or sudden change. Should any change be made in the present law, I trust that the possibility of the construction of such a special road may be pro- vided for, as an alternative to withdrawing from the present system any of the existing roads with the others that connect with them and would be almost equally affected. Such provision would be made, I understand, by the law proposed, which would give the town the right to open any single road it might deem best. This seems to me doubly important because the present driving roads of the town are certainly unsuitable for automobiles to use and could not be fitted for them, without great expense, while our horses at Bar Harbor are SO wholly unaccustomed to the sight of them that serious accidents might follow on their sudden use. To re-state, in brief, my point of view: I think it important to keep automobiles off the present driving roads of the town, wholly if possible, and would be willing to share, not only to the extent 3 of my taxes, -- which are considerable -- but beyond, in the building of a special road to keep them off of these. On the other hand, I do distinctly believe that the future interests of the town will be best served by giving the large class of people who now come travel- ling into the state by automobile in summer time an opportunity to reach what is, and should remain, its most important coast resort. Believe me Very truly yours, [George Bucknam Dorr] One Road Law Offers the Best Solution of the Automobile Problem. Mr. Charles Shea, House of Representatives, Augusta, Maine. 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, February 7, 1911. Dear Sir:- The publication of my letter to you with regard to the proposed automobile law for Bar Harbor-which was not written with a view to it-has led, I find, to some discus- sion as to my attitude in the matter and possible misunderstanding of it; I therefore write to you again to make my position in regard to it quite clear and to say as plainly as I can that I believe the proposed one-road law offers the best solution of the problem obtainable at the pres- ent time, and that I give it my support, without reserve, accordingly. This I do, first, because I believe it to be for the best interests of the town as a resort that the many people who now come, in constantly increasing numbers, travelling through the state by automobile in summer should be able to reach Bar Harbor without recourse to boats or trains. In the second place, because I believe that a single road permitting not only such travellers but the residents and summer residents of the town to come and go by automobile, and to be in automobile connection with the general road system of the state and country, is not only desir- able in itself but forms the only way in which the present unfortunate agitation and uncertainty can be brought to an end and the matter put upon a satisfactory and settled basis for the next few years. And third, because the proposed law, while satisfying what seems to me a reason- able demand on the part of many that the town should not be debarred from an important method of approach for travellers and a valuable quick connection with other portions of the country, leaves it permanently open to the towns-people and summer residents, combined, to make such an approach-either along the line suggested by myself or elsewhere-as will leave the existing road system practically untouched and will neither injure private property nor lessen personal safety in its use. That our present roads are unsuited in the condition in which they now are-and some of them permanently in my opinion-for automobile use does not seem to me to constitute an argument against the proposed law, but on the contrary to argue strongly in its favor, as it will limit automobiles to a single road which can be fitted for their use, or better, built expressly for such which I believe to be the only really satisfactory and immediately permanent solution of the problem. That complete exclusion can be maintained I do not believe; neither do I believe it to be desirable, looking at the matter largely and trying to look ahead and see what is going to be best for the town's development in the long run. That a single road would be simply an open- ing wedge for general admission I also do not think true; a great part of the opposition to this solution of the problem is based on that belief, but it seems to me on the contrary that the best chance of keeping automobiles off the general driving roads lies in giving them a special one apart from these, for approach and exit. This is all a matter of personal opinion. Mine has no more value than that of any other citizen or summer resident who has given the matter serious thought and has the larger inter- ests of the town at heart. I simply state my own position in the matter again because I do not wish to seem to take an uncertain one in regard to it, believing as I do that I am taking the wisest course for a citizen of the town to take in giving my support to the measure now before the Legislature and that it will, if passed, lead to the most practical solution of the problem possible at this time. As my previous letter to you, not written with a view to publication, has appeared in print, will you kindly see that the same publicity is given this which seeks to make my position in the matter clear. Yours truly, (Signed) G. B. DORR. Notz: See D.letter 8/26/12 to C.W.Eliot, this Series. Cambridge, Mass., March 21, 1911. Dear Mr. Appleton: I was truly sorry to decline the cordial invi- tation I received to attend the Harvard Club dinner next Friday evening. In correspondence with Mr. Marvin, however, I never gave any assurance that I should be able to attend the dinner this year. I only expressed a hope and a desire to attend. The fact is, that ever since I res sned as President, have accepted altogether too many invitations to make public addresses, and particularly too many invitations which involved being away from home over night. For some months I have been declining all invitations to make addresses at a distance; but now find myself compelled to limit the number of dinners and addresses near home. To give you some idea of the amount of time I have spent in that way, I will mention that this current week I shall have made five addresses before Saturday midnight, three of which are at dinners, and the other two are an hour's lecture last night at the Harvard Union and a short address at ar. afternoon meeting on Wednesday. Now [ have a considera:le acount of writing to do at home on a sub- ject with which T bojan to deal long ago; but I shall never accomplish anything with: it if I do not stop this incessant work of making public addresses. My family and friends hold strong ofinions on this subject, and are constantly exhorting me to stay at homo and work in =y delight- ful study. Sincerely yours, Francis F. Aprleton, Esq. Charles WOMAN FRIGHTENS BURGLAR. Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-1922); Aug 12,1911; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 2006) pg. I WOMAN FRIGHTENS BURGLAR. Bar Harbor Intruder Flees When Mrs. W. S. Kuhn Calls Out. Special to The New York Times. BAR HARBOR, Me., Aug. 11.-Old Farm, the cottage occupied by Mrs. W. S. Kuhn of Pittsburgh, and owned by George B. Dorr of Boston, was the scene of an attempted burglary early this morn- ing. The intruder was prevented from getting away with a large quantity of valuables only through the wakefulness of Mrs. Kuhn, whose room he entered. The burglar had gone about his work in a systematic manner, cutting the tele- phone wires. There were three telephones in the house, however, and the burglar overlooked one, a private line which leads to the stable. Mrs. Kuhn, who happened to be awako at the time, and who sleeps on a balcony out of doors opening off from her room, discovered the presence of the intruder by lighted matches which he struck from time to time to find his bearings and investigate the contents of the room. Supposing it was her son, Wendell, who sleeps in an adjoining room, she called out to him, and this frightened the burg- lar, who jumped from the plazza and made his escape. His only booty was one valuable stick pin. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY NUMBER THE CENTURY MAGAZINE VOL. LXXXII AUGUST, 1911 No. 4 UNIQUE MOUNT DESERT BY ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER T HREE things make the island of day of sunshine when the atmosphere is Mount Desert unique-in beauty, softened by a little haze, one sails into its altruism, and its variety.) view of a fairy-land bubbling up from the "This is the most beautiful place in water in a heap of misty, delicate, softly the world," a well-known artist assured rounded domes. Presently appear smooth, me last summer. "I 've been all round, bright lawns sloping back from the red -Italy, Greece, Syria,-but I 've never crags of the shore-line to tree-embowered found anything to equal it." villas. And from the heights peep out the This beauty impresses the stranger from towers and gables of Bar Harbor's foliage- afar. As be coasts eastward along the veiled cottages, many of which are so in Maine shore, thirteen mountains that seem love with the trees that one often has a to rise directly out of the sea compose better view of them from the water than themselves into three main masses, stand- ashore. ing out in noble relief in the clear atmo- By some happy chance one of my first sphere. The morning I first saw them experiences after landing was of a concert the westernmost mass was heavy, black, by the Kneisel Quartet in one of the most and solemn. The others, divided by those charming spots ever dedicated in any land delightful little twins, the Bubbles, were to the spirit of beauty, and certainly the fit- more friendly, with fleecy clouds stooping test conceivable setting for chamber-music. over them and letting through a few Here, in the Building of Arts, the Amer- splashes of sunlight here and there to gild ican has made the Greek temple his own their peaks and sides. and set it in natural, wild scenery as fair By the opposite approach, through as that of an AEgean isle. In fact, this Frenchman's Bay, the effect, though building, seen from the summit of New- wholly different, is no less striking; for port Mountain, is strongly reminiscent of Mount Desert is the one spot in the whole the temple of Theseus as it shows from sweep of the Atlantic coast from Labrador the Acropolis, only that, with its lovely to Mexico where the mountains go down background, the modern temple stands R FROM THE CLUB FLOAT to the sea.) Coming from this side on a out more strikingly than the ancient one, THE CENTURY BY W. AYLWARD Copyright, IGII, by THE CENTURY Co. All rights reserved. LXXXII-5 477 478 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE seen against the ugliness of modern the home-making cottager, the beauty- Athens. loving spirit of its painter-pioneers has The Building of Arts stood open, so never ceased to dominate the island. that we might look out upon sward and As the desire for artistic expression grew wood and the changing lights and shadows in Bar Harbor, and a series of chamber- on the mountains while hearing an ideal concerts in private cottages developed organization interpret Beethoven under musical taste, the question arose: If Ger- ideal conditions. The audience seemed as many might have its Bayreuth for such a far removed in spirit from the light mood hybrid thing as music-drama, why should of the usual watering-place as was the not America find at least as fit a setting building itself. The musicians responded for the simpler, purer art of chamber- at once to that almost telepathic sympathy music? Half a dozen years ago this idea of their hearers which is so essential a fac- was taken up by five enthusiastic and de- tor of a successful performance anywhere. voted summer residents, and grew in scope And when one of the cottagers came for- until out of it there came not a building ward, playing with them his own splen- for music only, but the Building of Arts. didly conceived quintet, players and audi- For, besides concerts, dramatic perform- ence seemed one in their enthusiasm. ances are given both there and in the ad- After the concert, while tea was being joining open amphitheater, modeled on old served on the lawn, it was a memorable Greek lines. And every summer the thing to watch from the slopes of the building glows with a pageant of flowers grassy amphitheater about the building which, according to competent critics, is the groups of charming costumes and the of unique wealth and rarity. faces flushed with music and the spirit of This horticultural exhibition is the di- the moment, outlined against the tender, rect outcome of Bar Harbor's well-known creamy tones of that home of loveliness, development of the art of gardening. Due, framed in its turn by the strength of the first of all, to the esthetic spirit of the hills place, this art has had other stimuli as At seemed too good to be true that such well. For because the island is a meeting- a thing should come to pass in an Amer- ground for the vegetation of the arctic ican summer resort. The experience was and the temperate zones, and because the a strange introduction indeed to a spot hardy herbaceous plants grow here as luxu- which I had vaguely expected to find a riantly as in Switzerland, it is a paradise center of fashion and summer gaiety, and for the gardener. Nowhere else in the little more. But it was soon evident that land does the procession of the flowers this concert was nothing sporadic, that it move from month to month with such actually stood for a love of beauty almost legato grace, with such abundant, un- Greek in its sincerity, and one in harmony broken consistency. Another boon to gar- with the constant tradition of the place, deners is the rapid recuperative power of For Mount Desert, the summer resort, nature. A certain gravel-pit near New- was discovered about the middle of the port Mountain, for example, has been al- last century by that famous group of most completely reclothed in green since American artists headed by Church and it was excavated twelve years ago. And Drawn by Aylward. plate engraved by Chadwick Cole, who thus proved themselves pioneers this quality of youthful vitality keeps the THE OCEAN DRIVE, MOUNT DESERT in more than landscape-painting. So the wild land fresh and interesting. public first came to learn the spell of this The chief impression one receives among borne fruit in a cult of wild gardens all There are many in Bar Harbor. One Northern landscape through the eyes of the gardens of Mount Desert is that their the more winning in a village wealthy comes suddenly into an irregular lake of artists before they sought the Maine coast owners have a strong feeling for wild na- enough to have "improved" nature out of lawn surrounded by wavy banks of flowers to enjoy it with their own eyes. ture. (Thirty years ago, when President the island. It is a pleasant and encour- that spill over here and there into the Many another watering-place has been Eliot built at Northeast, he said to his aging experience to find in America, near grass. On one side there opens out a real discovered by the appreciative, only to be guest Frederick Law Olmsted, "Olm- a palatial villa, a tangled coppice or a wild waterlead, and the surrounding trees, completely spoiled by the sudden inrush of sted, you 've been here a week now and piece of rough meadow worth twelve thou- consummately composed, seem no more in- popularity and wealth. Through the have n't told me what to do to my place." sand dollars an acre. evitable a part of the picture than the boarding-house period, through the time "Do to cried the landscape-archi- The "return to nature" movement is gables of the house showing above them of enormous wooden hotels, and into the tect, "For Heaven's sake, leave it alone!" equally responsible for the growing inter- at the farther end. present day, when, in Bar Harbor, at Since that day ("Leave it alone!" has est in the so-called "naturalistic" garden. The formal garden would seem out of least, the transient guest has given way to become a sort of watchword, and has 480 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE UNIQUE MOUNT DESERT 481 place in Bar Harbor if it were of the dows of old stained glass. The central tain peaks nine or ten leagues out at sea Bar Harbor became interested in the artificial, ostentatious kind often seen in space is dedicated to a few formal trees into this one lovely island. woodland walks and was inspired to natu- the grounds of the wealthy. But here it and shrine-like vases of bloom, and beyond Unlike many summer colonists, the ralize here the Tyrolean foot-paths, which is sometimes a little gem of landscape- their two marble lions preside over the Mount Deserters do not spend much on are shaded woodways winding pictur- architecture at once formal and natural, approach to the lofty choir, a stately loggia self and little pro bono publico. For the esquely along a rod or two from the dusty breaking perhaps into wildness and run- no more envined than to allow from below island is rich in public-spirited institu- road. He built such a path for half a ning down to the rugged shore, or set for a glorious view of Newport Mountain. tions and organizations. Even the claims mile along a highway running through his a surprise beside a sweep of rocky meadow, There is space merely for these few or held in the heart of a tangled thicket, memories of the island's gardens. It is like a polished nut inside its bur. While good to know that the passion for flowers the purpose of this formalism is evidently has observed no class distinctions, and EASTERN BAY to intensity by contrast the wild natural- that many of the fishermen's houses may ness of the place, it has also resulted in now be seen blossoming like the hovels of lending the formal gardens here an un- a French village. usual vividness and charm. The beauty of the outlook from those Certain vignettes persist in the memory, fortunate verandas that look seaward from such as a Japanese bronze dragon, seen high places is unique. From the north- OakPoint BAR HARBOR from above, writhing amid floral color western part of Bar Harbor, where the harmonies that modulate subtly toward a houses are as exquisitely conformed to the pergola smothered in scarlet woodbine. configuration of their steep grounds as Another is of a brook dammed into a Rhenish castles, one may look out over a charming wood-girdled pond into which slope of great, rough evergreens to the runs a smaller stream, musically inclined, harbor filled with vivacious pleasure- overarched by high-stepping miniature craft, Bar Island and the Little Porcupine Schooner Head bridges, guarded by tiny fences of tied coming dreamily out of the haze, and, be- bamboo, and with the stone shrines and yond, the mainland faintly penciled. Great Head the gnarled dwarf trees of Japan standing Or passing down the Ocean Drive, here and there. Up by a straw-thatched which can be compared only to that en- pagoda that is artistically held together chanted way winding above the Mediter- with ropes, a brazen Buddha presides on ranean from Amalfi to Sorrento, one dis- a ledge of rocks, and a single fern issues covers from the height of Seal Harbor as from a cranny bencath, in the accepted charming a group of pleasure-boats and a Japanese manner. Between the tree- more interesting panorama of islands than trunks one spies over the streamlet a jut are to be seen from Bar Harbor, with only Button's is of red crag, a sheet of blue-gray ocean, the distant coast-line lacking to make this and a distant peak that one feels must be the crowning view of all Fuji Yama. There is not space enough to touch on The existence of the largest and most the charm of Northeast Harbor and Nutler's Baker's is formal of Bar Harbor's gardens might be Southwest Harbor nestling by the mouth (Deadman's Pr unsuspected from the steps of its villa. of Somes Sound, our only authentic Nor- You adventure through a narrow, wind- wegian fjord. An eloquent tradition de- Lopaus ing way in a wild copse, and glimpse first clares that the stranger, no matter where a spread of velvety turf; then suddenly, he first may land on Mount Desert, for- MAP OF MOUNT DESERT beyond a round plot of snapdragon and a ever after prefers that particular spot, sun-dial, you discover a small marble and returns to it every season and hotly fountain surrounded by phlox and helio- champions its claims against all rivals. of the distant future are not neglected. A own land and gave it to the public. The trope, while the whole is backed by a semi- Woe betide the rash writer who should far-seeing group of summer residents have novel idea proved so great a delight that circular bed of white snapdragon and a presume to decide which of the harbors is formed a committee known as the Trus- others, and at last the town, extended this big, crescent loggia covered with vines. the most beautiful. As for me, I had as tees of Public Reservations for Hancock path as far as Schooner Head, winding it But this is merely looking across the lief decide between Chartres Cathedral, HCTPR County, and have gradually acquired valu- under the noble crags of Newport. Later transept of this chapel of flowers. You the Winged Victory, Leonardo's Last able lands, including several mountain the plan will doubtless be widely carried move up the nave and turn for the full Supper, and the Seventh Symphony. peaks and ponds, as perpetual public reser- out here and elsewhere. effect. Over the high side walls, studded Not alone beauty and a spirit of beauty, vations. It is hoped in the end to encircle A like spirit of service has been applied with dwarf evergreens, the tree-columns but a unique spirit of altruism as well has each of the harbors from the rear with a to the system of mountain paths which of the inclosing wood look down on a helped to unify the people of Mount De- zone of public land, and to forest the have nowhere been more highly developed dense fringe of high-growing flowers, col- sert, much as the recession of the waters whole island on a scientific basis. on this side of the Atlantic than at Mount ored as richly and delicately as aisle-win- once unified a group of storm-swept moun- Some years ago a generous cottager at Desert. 482 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE At Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor that the prevailing note of Bar Harbor is the summer residents, in proportion to given by the so-called "smart set." To their numbers, are quite as active in the those whose ideas of this resort have been public interest as their Bar Harbor friends. gathered from hearsay and the newspapers, And all work together efficiently. For ex- its subdued refinement of tone, its lack of ample, Captain Macdonald, minister and "yellow streaks," will come as a surprise. navigator, may stand on the summit of There 's little heavy drinking or gam- Green and sec half of his hundred-mile- bling here," Dr. Weir Mitchell remarked, long parish of isle-studded coast. Some and less of the Newport ostentation. It of his islands are uncharted, without laws, is more like the dear old Newport I used and beyond the pale of any government; to know in the days of Agassiz." Both yet not beyond the reach of the larger before and after the butterfly season, island's good-will. For the Maine Sea Mount Desert is a quiet, delightful place, Coast Mission, supported by Mount De- with an atmosphere favorable to the arts sert, has for five years been giving them the and even to philosophy. It is the home of From a photograph by Alfred Holmes Lewis sort of assistance, mental, physical, and a colony of distinguished writers and other AN ITALIAN CARDEN spiritual, that Dr. Grenfell brings to the artists. In fact, the whole island fairly fishermen of Labrador. teems with temperament and intellect. Not long ago a winter resident of Bar It is interesting to notice the different Harbor, a house-painter working at one evolutionary stages in the relation between of the cottages, was found studying a pho- cottagers and transients as shown by the tograph, and presently he asked the mis- four summer colonies. Southwest Har- tress of the house whether it was a bor, the eldest, has kept most conserva- Perugino or a Raphael. The lady grew tively to the old democratic régime. There interested, and found, after some conver- are comparatively few cottagers, the ho- sation, that the house-painter and his wife tels are simple, and the life still keeps had been making a serious study of Italian much of the spontaneous friendliness and art for five years. Further inquiry re- camaraderie of the early days. vealed that association with the summer The hotels at Northeast are more elabo- From photograph by Herben W. Cleason From photograph by Herbert W Cleason people and with the artists who had built rate and exclusive, and a perfect equili- LOOKING EAST OVER brium seems to exist just now between the JORDAN POND the cottages had not only trained up a FRENCHMAN'S BAY body of exceptionally skilled artisans, but hotel and the cottage life. But though had also roused among the winter resi- the relations between the two are most dents a vigorous appetite for artistic know- cordial, the friendless transient is not made ledge. In a community so altruistic an welcome at these reserved hostelries. arts and crafts movement naturally fol- President Eliot jokingly remarked to me, lowed, and now, under the direction of a Bar Harbor considers Northeast respec- well-known sculptor, a sort of local Wil- table, but impecunious." Then he added, liam Morris, the residents are learning We have no persons of very great wealth how to cast beautiful garden decorations here, although thev are beginning to settle in cement, to model, to hammer iron, to at Seal Harbor.' dye fabrics, to make Italian point-lace, The term "very great wealth" is both and so on. relative and somewhat vague, but there When one realizes that Mount Desert can be no difficulty in recognizing the is still in its infancy as a summer resort, highly individual and aristocratic quality From photograph by Herbert W. Gleason and realizes its brilliant possibilities and of Northeast. Founded by Bishop Doane GREAT HEAD the determined public spirit of the men and President Eliot, it has held consis- who have set out to fulfil them. one can- tently to its original tone, and has known not avoid the conclusion that this region in one season no fewer than five bishops is destined to be one of the important and nine college presidents. recreation centers of America. Seal Harbor's hotel life goes far toward For the island is already as unique in combining the democracy of Southwest its variety as it is in beauty and altruism. with the elegant comfort of Northeast. It is a world in little. Each settlement But this IS a more homelike harbor than has managed to keep its own strong indi- its neighbors, and the colony of residents From photograph by Herbert W Cleason viduality intact is beginning to be sufficient unto itself. VIEW OF BAR HARBOR FROM NEWPORT It is only at the height of the summer The cottagers and the hotel guests form MOUNTAIN UNIQUE MOUNT DESERT 485 all phases of our American culture that see tennis of a quality seldom found out- it can hardly be said to have an individual side of the important tournaments. There tone. It is many-sided, like the island it- are good tennis clubs at three of the har- self. bors. and interesting golf-links at two. Everybody comes to Mount Desert. Mount Desert is one of the best places and you can do anything here." an enthu- in America for driving, not only because siastic poet exclaimed not long ago. one may look down upon the sea from So far as pleasure is concerned, he was splendid mountain roads, but because it not far wrong about the possibility of do- is, as well, the one place from which the ing anything; for the island's resources automobile and the trolley have been ex- are ample enough to provide fresh recrea- cluded) Southwest alone voted, by a small tion for almost every day of the season. majority, in favor of admitting motors; The sailing is superb. The harbors, but its limited territory is too small to filled with varied craft, from the tiniest encourage their use. Nearly all of the launch to the ocean-going yacht, are often summer residents are dwellers in cities, THE SWIMMING.) POOL AT BAR HARBOR visited by the larger yacht-clubs on their and they have tried hard to keep the island cruises, and a squadron of war-ships may quiet, simple, un-urban. The exclusion sometimes be seen riding at anchor in the of the motor is only another instance of the lee of the Porcupines. beauty-loving. altruistic spirit of the peo- Mount Desert seems to do everything ple. For many of those who are most op- well. Though the climate is usually too posed to automobiles here are people to Drawn by W.J. Ayiward. Hall-tone plate engraved by Collins cool for comfortable ocean bathing, there whom they have become a necessity in KEBO VALLEY COUNTY CLUB are two swimming-pools where the water town. In banning them. the residents is warmed in the sun over several tides. considered not only the comfort in driving but swiftly diverging, more interesting group of islands, and has Every morning in the elaborate house of and walking, the element of danger, and h worlds are growing rap- none of that city flavor which is beginning the Bar Harbor Swimming-Club a part of the unsuitability of the roads. but also the t is owing to the accident to be felt at Bar Harbor. It-but, there, the Boston Symphony Orchestra plays a eternal fitness of things. These are the I Seal Harbor first that it this is exactly the sort of talk that any class of music so excellent that it would sort of folk who built the Building of st satisfying of the settle- Mount Deserter will give you by the hour be declared "impossible" at most summer Arts at the foot of Newport Mountain. entral location it can easily about his favorite harbor. resorts. Outside, about the tennis-courts, Most of them would as willingly set up a : special advantages of its Bar Harbor has reached a later stage the gaily colored crowd of young people, steam-piano on that quiet stage as invite a S the most convenient base of this evolution, where the hotel life is with their brilliance and animation, take car to invade the safety and peace of the of mountain-climbing its growing less and less significant. The one back to Smollett's word-pictures of Ocean Drive. Recently, however, the rugged. It commands a village is so large and so representative of the season at Bath. Here one may often "motor-men" have been alarmingly active, LXXXII-59 UNIQUE MOUNT DESERT 487 island lakes and entice trout and land- land, with old Katahdin looming on the locked salmon with a four-ounce rod and horizon, if the day be clear. One even a leaderful of dainty flies. finds on its southern slope the glamour of There are wild-fowl to shoot in season, legend in a tradition that the famous sea- and an occasional glimpse of larger game. serpent, which made its summer home in Two summers ago a couple of moose, pur- Eagle Lake and fattened on the lambs of suing a hereditary tradition. swam from the neighboring farm, was overtaken there the mainland, a distance of nine miles, and by a forest fire and left for souvenirs forty landed in Bar Harbor, near the mouth of joints of his backbone, each a foot thick. Duck Brook. One of them sauntered In proof whereof the scene of the epi- about an elaborate formal garden, went sode is known to this day as Great Snake through a tennis-net. scared the servants, Flat. and made off toward Young's Mountain, Farther down the mountain, past a carrying everything before him. In the place called the Old Leopard, one reaches old days big game in large numbers used the Por Holes, which were worn deep into to take this trip to escape the annual hunt. the bed-rock by glacial and chemical ac- And the Indians followed them over, and tion. Two particular pairs of twin holes continued to do so as long as they were so resemble two gigantic footprints that if allowed. Europe possessed them they would by this Mount Desert, being one of the most time be thickly incrusted with legends ancient regions in the world, has a special of how the giant who lurked in Feather- lure tor the geologist. For the mountains bed Hollow pursued the beautiful princess were formed not by foldings of the earth's of Resting Rock. and how she was saved crust. but by having their valleys gouged by the fairy of Eagle's Crag, who, with a out by the icy power-shovels of the glacial wave of her magic wand, embedded his period. "This range," as Professor Davis great feet in the rock, where they slowly writes. "is one of the most stubborn sur- moldered away, but left their marks for vivors of the ancient highlands.") all time. The island is the joy of the botanist, After a hard day's climb, I know of no too, and of all seekers after hidden trea- more charming mountain walk than the sure. About the year 1840 a heap of old gentle descent from here to the Black French coin and a pot of gold were found Woods. One goes delicately on moss or at different places not far from Castine, pine-needles, on clean white gravel or turf, on the neighboring mainland. This, taken or the smooth face of the living rock. As with a tradition that Captain Kidd's real in a park, rare varieties of trees border the cache was at Mount Desert, brought on way, and one comes to many a natural an epidemic of treasure-hunting which has clearing, with its vistas of mountain and never wholly died out. The spirit of the sea. More than any other American spot quest still remains, and for most of us this south ridge brings back to me the adds distinctly to the lure of the island. atmosphere of the Lake Country immor- If a man has never been on a quest for talized by Wordsworth. hidden treasure. it can be demonstrated There are, however, certain drawbacks that he has never been a child," said to Green. The carriage-road takes some- Stevenson once in reproach to Henry thing from its charm. It is too far inland Drawn by W.J. Aylward. Hulf-tone plate engraved by R. Varley James. to give that sense of hanging over the sea But the surest way to find the greatest which makes the ascent of Newport mem- A CAMP-FIRE ON THE CLIFF treasure of all is to abandon yourself to orable, and one misses the noble outline of and one begins to fear that the island's than ginger-ale. Picnics are popular on the chief recreation of Mount Desert and Green itself. which is a feature of the the Cranberry Islands, on the rocky beach climb for it along one of the many moun- views from Pemetic and Sargent. idyllic days are numbered. There is scarcely any end to the variety amphitheaters of Baker's and Gott's, near tain ways. That critic would be brave In these mountains one is forever com- of local recreations. No fewer than four the high surf from the open sea, among indeed who dared settle on the most re- ing upon original and surprising effects, places, including Jordan Pond and Somes- the thousand screaming gulls of the re- warding path and peak, for these are rivals like that natural stone sidewalk up Jor- markable Duck Islands, or inland on the as dear as the harbors themselves Green dan called the Bluffs, the fairy theater on ville, are the objective points of luncheons and dinner-parties, with wholesome and course of mountain-climbs. One may haul is the highest mountain, and from its more Pemetic, the sacred grove between New- simple food, of which the pièce de résis- two dozen varieties of flapping, wriggling than fifteen hundred feet one has the most port and Pickett, or the witchery of Jor- tance is fried chicken with corn and sweet creatures out of the sea with a hand-line. comprehensive sweep of range and lake- dan Brook, another such little stream as potatoes, and nothing stronger to drink One may float in a canoe on one of the filled valley, of encircling sea and main- Stevenson immortalized in 'Prince Otto." 488 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE The theater is molded out of the living romantic of them picks its way adroitly rock, and is no more than six feet across. for half a mile beneath the crumbling face Here. when the moon rides high, the Lit- of Cadillac Cliffs. Under the firs, in the tle People (whose real home, fable de- shadow of great, mossy red boulders, clares, is over on Brown) hold their out- within sound of the surf of Thunder Hole, door plays. There is a royal box for the a needle-carpeted way leads up craggy, king and even a specially private one with tern-covered stairways to the country of a canopy for the modest author. kobolds and nixies and all sorts of benefi- One enters the sacred grove suddenly cent spirits of earth and air. on the slippery descent to the Gorge. The On Bracy Point. at Seal Harbor, near brilliance of noon is lowered in a breath the rock called old Meenahga, which Mr. to late twilight. Nothing is visible but W. D. Howells once likened to an old the great boles of fir and spruce, bearing Indian with a tuft of red feathers and their dense canopy above an immaculate white ear-rings-near old Meenahga is a forest flooring of brown needles. But wonderful little fir grove which would be there is a magic in that sudden transfor- a fit stage for one of the dream-dramas of mation that fills one. as no other grove I Maeterlinck, with its romantic noonday know, with the spirit of the Greek re- moonlight, as it were, that should be neigh- ligion. bor to One of my pleasantest island memories is of a quiet stroll to Fawn Pond with magic casements, opening on the foam Dr. Weir Mitchell, a devoted lover of Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Mount Desert, who has perhaps done more than any one else except the late And from its verge, at dusk, beyond a Waldon Bates toward perfecting the rock-bound cove of racing surf, one sees splendid system of foot-paths. As we darkly silhouetted against the sunset glow walked the woods. he recalled how he had a pile akin to some hoary Romanesque run across Bar Harbor twenty-nine years castle on guard above the Rhine. before, in taking a trip down the coast But one must end somewhere, when with Phillips Brooks; and how ever since scores of rival memories clamor for ex- these paths had been his special care and pression. This island is such a varied joy. Now and again he would break off thing that it seems as if composed by a to point out some special beauty: how the poet fond of antithesis. who had deter- bark of the moose-wood showed in the mined to display his whole repertory of undergrowth like the body of some beau- effects in a single effort. No one has de- tiful snake; how certain heavy, slender- scribed this range of contrasts more effec- stemmed leaves seemed floating in air: tively than Clara Barnes Martin described how the splendid old pines of the first it more than thirty years ago growth had been saved from destruction only because they could not be "got out" Bleak mountain-side and sunny nook in how peculiarly opaque the shadows were sheltered cove; frowning precipice and gen- in Fawn Pond. As we sat smoking on tle smiling meadow; broad, heaving ocean the rocks above the water, he repeated and placid mountain lake; clashing sea-foam some lines which he had not long before and glistening trout brook; the deep thunder dedicated to this spot: of the ground-swell, and the solemn stillness Drawa by Aylward, Half-ton place exgraved howis of the mountain gorge; the impetuous rush A FAVORITE PASTIME Among the hills I know a dreaming lake and splash of the surf and the musical ca- No wind disturbs, and drowsily it seems dence of far-off waterfalls, all mingle and blend in the memory of this wonderland. Ambassador Bryce once told me that he The pictured stillness to itself to take. bushes burst into their autumnal glory All day it sleeps, and then at evening dreams preferred the clear, sharp days, when the high on the mountains, mellowed by the Northern character of the island is more Brown twilight shadows, till it dreams at waning remnant of their more conservative The air offers contrasts as wide as do dark the water and the land. Marion Craw- boldly defined, to the misty, romantic ef- leaves. One of the island's most unique A silver dream, the pale moon's crescent fects, when its rounded, gentle mountains effects comes when the sun abruptly del- ford would not admit this element of va- remind one more of the Mediterranean. bark. uges a whole mountain peak, shining riety, but complained, in "Love in Idle- Indeed, the clear, sharp October of through the blueberry clumps in a riot of ness," that earth, sky, and water were Mount Desert has a special charm. For color, intensified by the solid effects of There is space here for only a hint of "hard, bright, and cold" that the picture then, in all rare reds from orange to ruby the soberer hard-wood foliage below, by the variety of the paths. One of the most had neither depth nor "atmosphere." and from pink to crimson, the blueberry the darks of the stunted woodline ever- 490 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE greens, and the varied blues of the distant merely an hour of mellow sunlight and a sea. little soft haze to become tender, mystical, It is on such days as these that one most almost Mediterranean in quality. North- appreciates the bracing, crystalline air. the eastward the Burnt Bubble cut into the bold, vigorous colors, the sharp outlines irregular blue-gray of Eagle Lake. Above that have, 1 fear, come to be identified far it the spurs of Green Mountain disclosed too rigidly with this island. the pale lavender of the vacht-studded sea For there is another side to the story. beyond Bar Harbor and little Bald Por- Mount Desert is not pure Norway: it RECOLLECTIONS OF MILLET cupine Island, decently covered with a wig is Norway and Italy combined. Days of woolly cloud. On the far mainland come when the atmosphere, in the words gleaned scattered white settlements, mag- BY CHARLES JACQUE of a landscape-painter who knows it well, nified in the uncertain atmosphere into "has infinite color and softness a strange, far-off cities of another clime. spongy and velvety feeling to your fin- BECAUSE of his wide popularity as painter and etcher, any reference to Charles Jacque And behind them rose, in a bulwark, the gers." (Often it is quite too spongy and in the capacity of artist is unnecessary. That he was a very keen and successful business mysterious mainland peaks, man is, however, not generally known. He turned money out of everything he touched, velvety, for the island is notorious for There was something inexpressibly ap- and he engaged in almost every sort of enterprise connected with art. He was a master its fogs.) Marion Crawford was sadly pealing in such a gracious mood of this of the commercial intricacies of picture-selling, gaining advantage in this way to the day mistaken. There is atmosphere at Mount austere land of the Desert mountains. of his death, even preparing for his after-death sale. Desert: only one must watch and be pa- But as the eye ranged north and west over He went to Barbison in 1849 with Millet. who loaned him half the money received in tient. As for me, I prefer my landscape the groups of islands at the head of Somes advance for a picture. No sooner was he there than he began to buy and speculate in not fully revealed in a brilliant light, but Sound, the scene became by imperceptible houses and land, and with such success that he tried to "run" the hamlet. He introduced slightly veiled in a film of suggestion, the culture of asparagus, since become of much value to its inhabitants. He was also one degrees bolder and more brilliant. until at where more is meant than meets the eye, of the first to publish a book on the history of the hen from the egg to maturity. This length the western sun, striking the waters And it was an experience worth months book he thoroughly and excellently illustrated with his own drawings. He painted and of the sound into a sheet of burnished etched, and manufactured old furniture, all with success. But his energy was too dis- of waiting to stand on the summit of Sar- steel. lowered its light gradually in Echo turbing for the inhabitants of the hamlet, and they determined to get rid of him, and, as gent one September afternoon, breathing Lake and Long Lake, until it turned to he said, "They did." He kept his breeds of hens in separate yards, divided by picket in the ozone of Scandinavia and feasting reddish gold far out upon the waters of fences, and when he went to Paris, his enemies made holes in the fences, so that the fowls my eyes on a vision filled with the dreamy Blue Hill Bay. And immediately to the could run together, thus destroying all certainty of purity of blood. This was one of the poetry of the South. south this vision of panoplied splendor many means employed. Jacque thoroughly enjoyed relating his long and varied experi- have never seen from any high place ences and his recollections of Millet as well as of many other artists. His memory was a was presided over by mountains rising tier in the Old World a sight comparable in crowded storehouse of personal and general art history. At the time of our interviews he upon tier. their loftiest peak waving a ban- its melting beauty to that first view. The was seventy-eight years of age, had stopped painting, and was preparing for his after-death ner of smoky cloud, like some benign Ve- hard, bold Northern landscape had needed sale. As will be seen, he spoke with almost brutal frankness of himself, as he did of suvius of the New World. others. He was most contemptuous of picture-buyers generally, and concerning writers on art and art organizations he was quite as bitter. He was a very agreeable man to meet, an attractive talker. He had, he said, "got rid of illusions; life is like a caricature."- TRUMAN H. BARTLETT. M ILLET was so self-conscious and form, can really divine its peculiar char- sensitive that he thought every one acter, come only about once in a century. was looking at and thinking of him. As It is only a great master who can see the one of many instances, take the incident subtle movement of the nude, see that the where he happened to hear a thoughtless human figure is never still, though it ap- passer-by say that he painted only the pears so to the common artist. Millet's nude, and see how much he and others nudes are among the very best things he have made of it. No healthy mind would ever made, and what has become of them have paid the slightest attention to the re- is one of the mysteries of art commerce, mark, but he must run home and make a for very rarely is one seen in public sales. scene of domestic misery with Mrs. Millet. I say they are among the best, because to And Sensier dwells on this trivial incident make a good nude is the very greatest as a vital turning-point in the painter's thing in art, and Millet had an immense life. sense of the nude; he saw right through a Millet need not have been ashamed of living figure. His nude work seems to be painting the nude, for he has donc it as more spontaneous in many respects than has no other modern artist, and as no one almost anything else he ever did. though, is likely to do until another like him comes, as a matter of construction, all of his fig- BUNKER HILL," ONE OF THE DIFFICULT HOLES ON THE KEBO VALLEY perhaps in the next century. I say this ures are dominated by this sense, no mat- GOLF-LINKS AT BAR HARBOR because eyes that can really see the nude ter how thick and rude were the garments 401 HOME SEARCH CATALOG I MY ACCOUNT I SUBSCRIBE TO E-NEWS The Jesup Dedication: August 30, 1911 The gift of a library is the best and most perfect public gift. -Judge Luere B. Deasy Transcript from The Bar Harbor Record, DEDICATION Wednesday, September 6, 1911: "Presentation and Dedication of Jesup SPEAKERS Memorial Library, Wednesday, August 30, 1911" jesup-dedication 1/30 200 Bloomfield Avenue University ofHartford Director of Libraries William H. Mortensen Library West Hartford, CT 06117-1599 Phone 860.768.4268 Fax 860.768.4274 Email repp@mail.hartford.edu 4 August 2000 Ms. Nancy Howland Jessup Memorial Library 34 Mount Desert Street Bar Harbor, ME 04609 Dear Nancy, Several days ago I e-mailed you regarding our meeting at the recent Jack Perkins lecture at Jessup, detailing my interest in the personal and professional documents relative to George B. Dorr. Over the past few years, I've researched much of the available published materials that I could secure in regional research libraries and through ILL. I am aware of the Dorr documentation in other Mt. Desert Island public libraries, the ANP Office of the Superintendent, the Library of Congress, the Harvard Archives, and the Rockefeller Archival Center. Now I would like to examine distinctive archival material that is part of the Jessup Memorial Library. I plan to visit Bar Harbor for the ANP Historic Trails Conference in mid-October. Would it be possible for us to meet at that time, enabling me to at least get an overview of the relevant materials? The dates I had in mind were October 16th. 19th, or 20th. It would be helpful if you could provide some indication of the scope (perhaps in the common measurements of linear feet) of your holdings relative to Dorr, the Dorr family, his relationship to J.D. Rockefeller, Jr., Dorr's role in the creation and administration of what would become Acadia National Park, and the development of the historic trails and carriage roads. Is some material only available in non-print formats? As a librarian, I fully realize that such a brief visit might require many visits to mine the resources available in your facility and elsewhere on Mt. Desert Island. I do appreciate any assistance that you might be able to offer a colleague. I look forward to hearing from you. Most Sincerely, GHVIS Resured microfelon 10 a in. Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Director of Libraries on May 10th Dollars 202 JML. H. JESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY x 1911 Mount Desert Street, with churches opposite, the Y. W. C. A. building given by Mrs. Kennedy as its THE next neighbor, and an old-fashioned hardy garden, lawns and shrubbery enclosing it. No more fitting JESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY setting for a Library could well be found. Within, the main reading room is long and spacious, BAR HARBOR, MAINE equipped with a silent floor of cork and panelled in dark oak, quiet and restful to the eye. A long oak T HE Library at Bar Harbor is the outgrowth table, lighted from above, reaches down the length of of over thirty years of devoted labor on the room, for magazine or other reading, while on the part of summer residents and citizens, either side the room is divided into alcoves - still, crowned by Mrs. Jesup's splendid gift of a permanent secluded spots for reading, each with its own win- and fitting home for it. No more delightful place for dow opening pleasantly out on lawn and garden, each reading or for quiet study exists in America to-day with its own chairs and table and open stack of than the silent, spacious rooms this building offers, books. Easy flights of stairs lead up also from the designed for the purpose with the greatest care and floor of this main reading room to a gallery - wide with wide knowledge of what had been accomplished as the alcoves' depth below - extending round the elsewhere. That these opportunities-- -- for choice of room upon three sides, where there are further open books and for their ready consultation, placed on stacks from floor to ceiling; and all these stacks, the open shelves; for reading in quiet seclusion, in the lower and the upper both, are full of well selected town's midst; and for passing pleasant hours in beau- books. tiful, still rooms and in an atmosphere of books- Two other rooms exist upon this floor. The one should be fully known and appreciated is the purpose upon the right on entering was built by Mrs. Jesup of this pamphlet. for a special horticultural purpose, to hold a library The Library, built to endure- of stone and brick, of valuable and useful books on horticultural sub- and with exceeding thoroughness of workmanship in ] all detail - is situated centrally and pleasantly on [1] JML H 3 JESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY jects and to offer opportunity for their ready con- sultation or their longer study. In addition to this special library, and to supple- ment its purpose, the Directors of the Library intend this room to hold also the best and most complete collection they can form of plant and landscape pho- tographs, a thing that has never yet been competently done by any library in the world SO far as they have knowledge and which they ask the aid of others, as they have opportunity to obtain such photographs, to help them in achieving. The room is admirably lighted for the purpose by high and ample windows; it looks pleasantly and ap- propriately down upon the garden of the Library, on its western side, and is furnished with an ample table for study of its photographs, or larger books. It is of easy access also from the street, for owners of estates or gardeners to consult readily its books of reference in passing. The other room on the main floor, the one upon the left in entering, is the children's room, devoted to their use exclusively. Their books alone fill its shelves, which lie open to them to look through and make selection from according to the interest the books excite. In this way only can a library be made [ 3 ] JML H.2 JESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY a thing of living, stimulating interest to children, as every one who looks back to the companionship of books in his own childhood knows; and it is good, at the right time and season, to see how well it answers here. The basement of the Library, which opens out most pleasantly upon the lower level of its lawns and garden, contains - accessible from without as well as from the floor above- - an admirable room for meetings, and an excellently lighted stack-room, large as the main reading room above, where the books not needed on the open shelves upon the upper floor can be kept in safety and readily got at as they are wanted. The Library is freely open to all visitors and read- - ers, from nine in the morning until nine at night - except on Sundays, when it is open in the afternoon for reading only; an experienced librarian-or libra- rian's assistant- - is always there, within these hours, who will assist in finding any books required for read- ing or for study in the Library or who will give out books upon request for reading elsewhere. The books the Library offers represent a long labor of love on the part of the purchasing committee, thoughtful selection stretching over many years and [ 4 ] JMCH. 4 JESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY made by men and women of the widest reading. The best of the older literature is there and the best of the new books that each succeeding year has brought, both light and serious. A number of the most valua- ble books of reference in the English language were added also to the shelves of the new building when the older library was moved there, through the generous interest of summer residents, and it can now be truly called a scholar's library as well as one of general liter- ature and popular character. The aim of the Directors is to make the Library, with its admirable new equipment and its slow build- ing up from small beginnings through a generation's work and interest, serve now the widest possible ends both in the Town's own life and in that of its sum- mer residents and visitors; to make it useful in the broadest sense, a source of wholesome interest and pleasure, a means of education and an instrument in aid of study: but above all, to make it serve as an awakening suggestion of the higher life of thought and feeling into which the world's great literature, both old and new, is - next to inspiring human con- tact - the torch-bearer and single guide GEORGE B. DORR, For the Directors. [5] NPS Form 10-900 372 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 1391 National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NATIONAL REGISTER This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in Guidelines for Completing National Register Forms (National Register Bulletin 16). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the requested information. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, styles, materials, and areas of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. 1. Name of Property historic name Jesup Memorial Library other names/site number 2. Location street & number 34 Mt. Desert Street NA not for publication city, town Bar Harbor NA vicinity state Maine code ME county Hancock code 009 zip code 04609 3. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property private building(s) Contributing Noncontributing public-local district 1 buildings public-State site sites public-Federal structure structures object objects 1 0 Total Name of related multiple property listing: Number of contributing resources previously Maine Public Libraries listed in the National Register 0 4. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this nomination request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property ameets does not meet the National Register criteria. See continuation sheet. Signature Eases of certifying official 2/8/91 Date . Maine Historic Preservation Commission State or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. See continuation sheet. Signature of commenting or other official Date State or Federal agency and bureau 5. National Park Service Certification I, hereby, certify that this property is: entered in the National Register. See continuation sheet. 4/1/91 determined eligible for the National Register. See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the National Register. removed from the National Register. other, (explain:) for Signature of the Keeper Date of Action 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) Education/Library Education/Library 7. Description Architectural Classification Materials (enter categories from instructions) (enter categories from instructions) foundation Stone/Granite Colonial Revival walls Brick roof Stone/Slate other Describe present and historic physical appearance. The Jesup Memorial Library is a refined Colonial Revival brick building which is one-story in height and five bays in width. It has a slate covered hip roof and a T-shaped footprint. The library faces north onto Mt. Desert Street in downtown Bar Harbor. The principal elevation is symmetrically composed of a recessed central entry flanked by six-over-six windows. An elaborately detailed Palladian style entranceway executed in limestone enframes the door. Its classical detailing includes pilasters, a full entablature, urns, and a coffered ceiling. A central medallion over the door displays an open book. The windows lie below round-arched stone panels with inset bulls-eyes. The Flemish bond brick walls rise from a granite foundation to a limestone cornice featuring a dentil string and scroll modillion blocks. A pair of chimneys rise through the ridge of the hip roof. Both the east and west side elevations are identical in their composition. Each has two windows (similar to those on the facade) in the walls of the front block along with five rectangular openings in the wing. The elaborate cornice extends only to the wing, but a large stone water table extends around the entire building, with the exception of the facade. There are additional windows on the rear of the front block (one on each side of the wing), as well as basement windows located below those on the principal story. In addition, a tall round-arched window and two smaller rectangular units occupy the wing's rear elevation. A secondary entrance to the basement is located below the central window, and a fire escape is located on the east side of the wing. In plan, the building is organized into four principal spaces on the first floor. A central rotunda is reached through a passageway that separates a coat room from the stairs leading to the basement. To the west of the rotunda is a reading room which, in the original design, was planned to accommodate a collection of horticultural materials. The counterpart room to the east was designed to be the children's reading room. Both rooms feature Colonial Revival paneling and fireplaces. Behind and to the side of the rotunda is the librarian's office and a second set of basement stairs. Projecting to the rear is the reading room. This space is noteworthy for the vaulted ceiling with its skylight and darkly stained woodwork used on the See continuation sheet NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (6-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 2 walls and square posts that support the gallery. Book stacks are located both in the gallery and in the alcoves below. The careful attention paid to the classical detailing which is evident on the exterior is also apparent on the interior. This is especially true in the rotunda where pilasters rise to a stylized Doric entablature above which is the coffered ceiling. The basement contains a children's room, the boiler room, a store room, and lavatory in the front block. The stack room is located in the wing. 8. Statement of Significance Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: nationally statewide locally Applicable National Register Criteria A B X C D Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) A B C D E F G Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Dates Architecture 1911-1941 1910-11 Education Cultural Affiliation N/A Significant Person Architect/Builder N/A Delano & Aldrich, Architects State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. Constructed in 1910-11 from plans drawn by the New York architectural firm of Delano and Albrich, the Jesup Memorial Library is a handsome brick building in the Colonial Revival style. It was given to the town of Bar Harbor by Mrs. Morris K. Jesup in memory of her husband. The library meets the requirements for registration under criteria A and C for its educational and architectural significance as more fully described in the multiple property submission "Maine Public Libraries." Bar Harbor's first library is believed to have been organized in 1875 by a group of summer residents. This collection of 176 volumes was assembled for the use of Mt. Desert's permanent residents and made available to them for two nights per week. A small frame library was built in 1877. In 1883 the growing collection was turned into a subscription library with borrowing privileges charged at the rate of $1.00 per family, but the fee was dropped three years later. The library moved into a new building in 1890. By the early 1900s the collection consisted of more than 8,000 volumes. The present building was given to the town by the widow of Morris K. Jesup, a New York financier and long-time summer resident of Bar Harbor. It was erected at a cost of $70,000 by local contractor Chester A. Hodgkins. Mrs. Jesup also established a $50,000 endowment fund during the dedication held on August 30, 1911. The library was originally surrounded by a herbaceous garden developed by another summer resident, George B. Dorr. An avocational horticulturist, Dorr was one of the leading activists behind the creation of Acadia National Park. See continuation sheet 9. Major Bibliographical References Bar Harbor Village Library: 1875-1905. Bar Harbor, ME. Publisher Unspecified. 1905? The Jesup Memorial Library. Bar Harbor, ME. Publisher and Date Unspecified. C. 1911? See continuation sheet Previous documentation on file (NPS): preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Primary location of additional data: has been requested State historic preservation office previously listed in the National Register Other State agency previously determined eligible by the National Register Federal agency designated a National Historic Landmark Local government recorded by Historic American Buildings University Survey # Other recorded by Historic American Engineering Specify repository: Record # 10. Geographical Data Acreage of property Less than 1 UTM References A 19 563160 4914910 B Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing C D See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description The nominated property occupies the Town of Bar Harbor tax map 4, block 7, lot 30. See continuation sheet Boundary Justification The boundary embraces the entire village parcel historically associated with this building. See continuation sheet 11. Form Prepared By name/title Kirk F. Mohney, Architectural Historian organization Maine Historic Preservation Commission date 1/91 street & number 55 Capitol Street telephone (207) 289-2132 city or town Augusta state Maine zip code 04333 BAR HARBOR, MAINE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1915 1052 JESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY Bar Harbor Has One Of The Finest Buildings In State And 11,000 Volumns Are To Be Found On Its Shelves-It Is Supported Largely By Endowment Bar Harbor has a public library of No more delightful place for reading Within, the main reading room is which it may well be proud. It is the or for quiet study exists in America today long and spacious, equipped with a outgrowth of 30 years of devoted labor than the silent spacious rooms this silent floor of cork and panelled in dark on the part of summer residents and building offer designed for the purpose oak, quiet and restful to the eye. A long citizens crowned by Mrs. Morris K. with the greatest care and with wide oak table, lighted from above, reaches Jesup's memorial gift of a permanent knowledge of what had been accomplished down the length of the room, for magazine and fitting home. Here about 11,000 elsewhere. The library, built to endure- or other reading, while on either side volumes of standard literature, works of of stone and brick, and with exceeding the room is divided into alcoves-still, history, encyclopedias, and late popular thoroughness of workmanship in all secluded spots for reading, each with its fiction are to be found in this beautiful detail- s situated centrally and pleasant- own window opening pleasantly out on home supported by an endowment fund ly on Mount Desert street, with churches lawn and garden, each with its own chairs given by Mrs. Jesup besides the annual opposite; the Y. W. C. A. building and table and open stack of books. appropriation of the town and receipts given by Mrs. Kennedy as its next Easy flights of stairs lead up also from from the subscriptions of non-resident neighbor, and an old-fashioned hardy the floor of this main rending room to renders. The library WHA dedicated in garden, lawns and shrubbery enclosing a gallery-wide as the alcoves' depth August, 1911 and was occupied soon it. No more fitting setting for a library below-extending round the room upon thereafter. could well be found. three sides, where there are further open stacks from floor to ceiling; and all these stacks, the lower and the upper both, are full of well selected books. Two other rooms exist upon this floor. The one upon the right upon entering was built by Mrs. Jesup for a special horticultural purpose, to hold a library of valuable and useful books on horti- cultural subjects and to offer opportunity for their ready consultation or longer study. In addition to this special library, and to supplement its purpose, the directors of the library intend this room to hold also the best and most complete collection they can form of plant and landscape photographs, a thing that has never yet been competently done by any library in the world so far as they have knowledge and in which they ask onnortu- a BRACLEY Bar Harbor has a public library of No more delightful place for reading Within, the main reading room is which it may well be proud. It is the or for quiet study exists in America today lang and spacious, equipped with a outgrowth of 30 years of devoted labor than the silent spacious rooms this silent floor of cork and panelled in dark on the part of summer residents and building offer designed for the purpose oak, quiet and restful to the eye. A long citizens crowned by Mrs. Morris K. with the greatest care and with wide oak table, lighted from above, reaches Jesup's memorial gift of a permanent knowledge of what had been accomplished down the length of the room, for magazine and fitting home. Here about 11,000 elsewhere. The library, built to endure- or other reading, while on either side volumes of standard literature, works of of stone and brick, and with exceeding the room is divided into alcoves-still, history, encyclopedias, and late popular thoroughness of workmanship in all secluded spots for reading, each with its fiction are to be found in this beautiful detail- is situated centrally and pleasant- own window opening pleasantly out on home supported by an endowment fund ly on Mount Desert street, with churches lawn and garden, each with its own chairs given by Mrs. Jesup besides the annual opposite; the Y. W. C. A. building and table and open stack of books. appropriation of the town and receipts given by Mrs. Kennedy as its next Easy flights of stairs lead up also from from the subscriptions of non-resident neighbor, and an old-fashioned hardy the floor of this main rending room to renders. The library was dedicated in garden, lawns and shrubbery enclosing a gallery-wide as the alcoves' depth August, 1911 and was occupied soon it. No more fitting setting for a library below-extending round the room upon therenfter. could well be found. three sides, where there are further open stacks from floor to ceiling; and all these stacks, the lower and the upper both, are full of well selected books. Two other rooms exist upon this floor. The one upon the right upon entering was built by Mrs. Jesup for a special horticultural purpose, to hold a library of valuable and useful books on horti- cultural subjects and to offer opportunity for their ready consultation or longer study In addition to this special library, and to supplement its purpose, the directors of the library intend this room to hold also the best and most complete collection they can form of plant and landscape photographs, a thing that has never yet been competently done by any library in the world so far as they have knowledge and in which they ask the aid of others, as they have opportu- nity to obtain such photographs, to help them in achieving. The room is admirably lighted for the purpose by high and ample windows; it looks pleasantly and appropriately down upon the garden of the library, on its western side, and is furnished with an ample table for its study of photo- graphs or larger books. It is of easy access also from the street, for owners of estates or gardners to consult readily its books of reference in passing. The other room on the main floor, the one upon the left in entering, is the chil- dren's room, devoted to their use ex- clusively. Their books alone fill its shelves, which lie open to them to look through and make selection from ac- cording to the interest the books excite. In this way only can a library be made a thing of living, stimulating interest to children, 29 everyone who looks back to the companionship of books in his own childhood knows; and It is good, at the right time and season, to see how well it answers here. The basement of the library, which opens out most pleasantly upon the lower level of its lawns and garden, contains- accessible from without as well as from the floor above-an admirable rooin for down upon the garden of the library, on its western side, and is furnished with an ample table for its study of photo- graphs or larger books. It is of easy access also from the street, for owners of estates or gardners to consult. readily its books of reference in passing. The other room on the main floor, the one upon the left in entering, is the chil- dren's room, devoted to their use ex- clusively. Their books alone fill its shelves, which lie open to them to look through and make selection from ac- cording to the interest the books excite. In this way only can a library be made a thing of living, stimulating interest to children, as everyone who looks back to the companionship of books in his own childhood knows; and it is good, at the right time and season, to see how well it answers here. The basement of the library, which opens out most pleasantly upon the lower level of its lawns and garden, contains- accessible from without as well- as from the floor above-an admirable room for meetings, and an excellently lighted stack room, large as the main reading room above, where the books not needed on the open shelves upon the upper floor can be kept in safety and readily got at as they are wanted. The library is freely open to all visitors and readers, from 9 in the morning until 9 at night in summer, and 10 in the morning until 9 at night in the winter -except on Sundays, when it is open in the afternoon for reading only. An experienced librarian-o librarian's as- sistant-is always there, within these hours, who will assist in finding any books required for reading or for study in the library or who will give out books upon request for reading elsewhere. The books the library offers represent a long labor of love on the part of the purchasing committee, thoughtful selec- tion stretching over many years and made by men and women of the widest reading. The best of the older literature is there and the best of the new books that each succeeding year has brought, both light and serious. A number of the most valuable books of reference in the English language were also added to the shelves of the new building when the older library was moved there, through the generous interest of summer residents, and it can now be truly called a scholar's library as well as one of general literature and popular character. The aim of the directors is to make the library, with its admirable new equip- ment and its slow building up from small beginnings through a generation's work and interest, serve now the widest possible ends-both in the town's own life and in that of its summer residents and visitors; to make it useful in the broadest sense, a source of wholesome nterest and pleasure, a means of educa- tion and an instrument in aid of study; but above all, to make it serve as an awakening suggestion of the higher life of thought and feeling into which the world's great literature, both old and new, is-next to inspiring human i contact-the torch bearer and single 11 PROCEEDINGS Title: OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE HELD AT THE YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK OCTOBER 14, 15, AND 16, 1912 OF E THE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1913 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE HELD AT YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK OCTOBER 14, 15, AND 16, 1912. INTRODUCTION. On October 14, 15, and 16 there was held in the Yosemite National Park the second conference of departmental officials and other persons interested in the development and administration of the national parks. There were present at this conference the superintendents of the various parks, the principal Washington officers of the Department of the Inte- rior who handle national park matters, and representatives of the concessioners, of the transportation companies tributary to the parks, and of independent organizations that have been interested in the prob- lems of park administration. All persons holding concessions in the national parks were invited to be present and all of the railroads tribu- tary to the parks were invited to send representatives. Every important interest connected with the parks both on the side of the Government and on the side of the concessioners and railroads was adequately repre- sented. The purpose of the conference was to consider all the questions that arise in the administration of these reservations, in order that the department might be able to make such changes in the regulations and to foster such development as might be for the best interest of the public. It should be distinctly understood that the views herein expressed are those of the individuals presenting them, and that the department gives no official sanction to the facts stated or to the recommendations made. PERSONS ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE. Capt. J. B. Adams, assistant forester, Washington, D.C. W. F. Arant, superintendent Crater Lake National Park, Klamath Falls, Oreg. H. C. Best, Yosemite, Cal. W. M. Boland, superintendent Wind Cave National Park, Hot Springs, S. Dak. Frank Bond, chief clerk, General Land Office, Washington, D. C. J. T. Boyesen, Yosemite, Cal. Lieut. Col. L. M. Brett, acting superintendent Yellowstone National Park, Yellow_ stone Park, Wyo. G. M. Brookwell, Los Angeles Real Estate Board, Los Angeles, Cal. L. E. Burkes, secretary Automobile Club, San Francisco, Cal. D. E. Burley, general passenger agent, Oregon Short Line Railroad, Salt Lake City, Utah. J. J. Byrne, assistant passenger traffic manager, Santa Fe Railway. R. H. Chapman, acting superintendent Glacier National Park, Belton, Mont. 5 6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE. 7 A. D. Charlton, assistant general passenger agent, Northern Pacific Railway, Portland, C. H. Lovell, attorney for Wawona Road. Oreg. F. W. McCauley, Yosemite, Cal. Maj. Sherwood A. Cheney, Engineer Corps, United States Army. C. H. McStay, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. H. W. Child, Yellowstone Park Transportation Co., Yellowstone Park, Wyo. R. B. Marshall, Chief Geographer, Geological Survey, Washington, D. J. W. Coffman, Yosemite, Cal. George W. Marston, San Diego, Cal., representing American Civic Association. W. E. Colby, secretary Sierra Club, San Francisco, Cal. T. H. Martin, secretary Seattle-Tacoma-Ranier National Park Committee, Tacoma, R. S. Cole, Riverside Chamber of Commerce, Riverside, Cal. Wash. J. C. Conwell, secretary Automobile Dealers' Association, of Los Angeles, Cal., repre- H. A. Meyer, private secretary to the Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D.C. senting Ocean to Ocean Highway Association. A. W. Miles, president Wylie Permanent Camping Co., Yellowstone Park, Wyo. D. A. Curry, Yosemite, Cal. Frank A. Miller, Los Angeles, Cal. J. B. Curtin, Sonora, Cal. E. H. Mormon, Wylie Permanent Camping Co., Yellowstone Park, Wyo. W. T. S. Curtis, Washington, representing certain Hot Springs lessees. John Muir, American Alpine Association, Martinez, Cal. Mrs. John Degnan, Yosemite, Cal. H. H. Myers, superintendent Hot Springs Reservation, Hot Springs, Ark. F. C. Dezendorf, Chief Field Division, General Land Office, custodian Muir Woods, Fernando Nelson, San Francisco Motorist. San Francisco, Cal. P. M. Norboe, State engineer, Sacramento, Cal. E. W. Dixon, inspector, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. E. T. Off, Pasadena Chamber of Commerce. F. Drum, Yosemite, Cal. O. K. Parker, engineer for Automobile Club of Southern California, Los Angeles, Cal. Coert DuBois, district forester, California. E. T. Parsons, representing Mazamas Mountaineers, Seattle, Wash. Ralph Earle, Pathé Freres, New York. A. C. Pillsbury, 783 Mission Street, San Francisco, Cal. C. H. Edwards, Secretary, Coulterville Road, Cal. P. H. Price, Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce, Santa Barbara, Cal. Dr. L. R. Ellis, member federal registration Board, Hot Springs, Ark. Hon. John E. Raker, House of Representatives. Charles S. Fee, passenger traffic manager, Southern Pacific Railroad, San Francisco, Cal. Miss Vera C. Riley, United States Land Office, San Francisco, Cal. Walter L. Fisher, Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C. A. C. Ringland, district forester in charge, Grand Canyon. George Fiske, Yosemite, Cal. R. K. Roberts, secretary Motor Car Dealers' Association, San Francisco, Cal. Ex-Senator Frank Flint, representing Southern California Automobile Association, N. L. Salter, Yosemite, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal. Wm. F. Schmidt, general western agent, Missouri Pacific; St. Louis, Iron Mountain & D. K. Foley, Yosemite, Cal. Southern Railway; and Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, San Francisco, Cal. Col. W. W. Forsyth, acting superintendent Yosemite National Park, Cal. W. M. Sell, Yosemite, Cal. W. J. French, superintendent Platt National Park, Sulphur, Okla. David A. Sherfey, engineer, Yosemite National Park. Walter Fry, head ranger Sequoia National Park, Three Rivers, Cal. E. Shoemaker, superintendent Mesa Verde National Park, Mancos, Colo. Miss S. C. Geary, secretary Automobile Club of Southern California, Los Angeles, Cal. Gabriel Sovulewski, supervisor Yosemite National Park. W. H. Gorham, representing Mountaineers, Seattle, Wash. W. Steel, Portland, Oreg. P. H. Greer, president Automobile Dealers' Association of Southern California, Los Ternes, Tacoma Baggage & Transfer Co., Tacoma, Wash. Angeles, Cal. W. Thompson, general western agent Rock Island Lines, San Francisco, Cal. E. S. Hall, superintendent Mount Rainier National Park, Ashford, Wash. C. Ucker, chief clerk Interior Department, Washington, D. C. Maj. H. M. Hallock, medical director, Hot Springs Reservation, Hot Springs, Ark. W. L. Valentine, representing Southern California Automobile Association, 710 George B. Hanson, Southern Pacific Railroad, San Francisco, Cal. Johnson Building, Los Angeles, Cal. F. F. Harvey, manager dining car service, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, R. F. Waddell, United States land office, San Francisco, Cal. American Bank Building, Kansas City, Mo. Percy J. Walker, president State Automobile Association, San Francisco, Cal. C. A. Hawkins, White Automobile Co., San Francisco, Cal. C. A. Washburn, Wawona, Cal. F. J. Haynes, concessioner, Yellowstone Park, Wyo. S. Washburn, Wawona, Cal. H. H. Hays, Wylie Permanent Camping Co., Yellowstone, Wyo. R. B. Watrous, secretary American Civic Association, Washington, D. C. J. F. Hickey, Tacoma, Wash. Col. Harris Weinstock, representing San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, San Fran- J. R. Hickey, Monida & Yellowstone Stage Co., Yellowstone Park, Wyo. cisco, Cal. James Hughes, Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad, Tacoma, Wash. Capt. W. M. Whitman, acting superintendent Sequoia and General Grant National D. W. Hutchins, Riverside Chamber of Commerce, Riverside, Cal. Parks, Three Rivers, Cal. Chris. Jorgensen, Yosemite, Cal. Dr. Willistear, Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, Pasadena, Cal. W.E. Kelly, Interior Department, Washington, D. C. M. Yost, Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, Pasadena, Cal. O. W. Lehmer, general manager Yosemite Valley Railroad, Merced, Cal. C.M. Ziebach, acting superintendent Sullys Hill National Park, Fort Totten, N. Dak. M. O. Leighton, Chief Hydrographer, Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. o PRUCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE. 9 MORNING SESSION, OCTOBER 14. kind. They all raise questions which are very similar in the different parks, and yet there is no way of coordinating these matters and bringing Secretary FISHER. Gentlemen, we may as well come to order. This, to bear for the benefit of all other parks the experiences of any particular as you know, is the Second Annual National Park Conference, the first park, or the successes or failures of particular park superintendents or having been held last year at the Yellowstone, and I am very glad to other officials. see SO many of you present here this year. There has been no machinery whatever in the Secretary's office for We are meeting one day in advance of the formal announcement, I this purpose; and SO by process of elimination, by force of circumstances, believe, as it was not sure that I could get here from Honolulu before the administration of the national parks has been intrusted primarily, so to-morrow, SO that a day's leeway has been given. We know there are a far as routine details are concerned, to the office of the chief clerk. That very considerable number of people coming up during the day. office is very heavily burdened with other matters of detail in the city of The conference is called to discuss the various questions relating to Washington. It has the handling of the ordinary clerical details of the the administration of the national parks and issues that have to do office of the Secretary of the Interior and the handling of the clerical with their proper management and development. There are a great matters that come up to that office from all the different bureaus and many questions to be talked about. Last year we had a number of subdivisions of the department. formal papers. We felt at that time that, being the first conference, it In the very nature of the case, it has been impossible for the chief clerk's would be desirable to indicate somewhat the character of the questions office to give the attention to these matters which their importance we wished to talk about by having formal papers prepared by a number demands. The offices of the chief clerk and of the Secretary itself have of people on different topics of interest. It was felt that in that way never been equipped to handle these matters, if it had been possible to we would get before the conference suggestions that would lead to give them the necessary time and attention. Many of the problems are expressions of opinion or experience or advice from various members engineering in their character; many of them relate to the broader of the conference with regard to the problems that were confronting aspects of park development. The landscape questions, the questions any particular park or any official of the parks. relating to the forests and streams in the forest-sanitation and the con- The situation regarding park administration has not changed in a struction of buildings of various kinds, both for park administration and radical manner during the last year. It was, I think, the unanimous for the accommodation of the traveling public-all require special quali- opinion of those who attended the conference last year that the national fications on the part of those called upon to administer them, with respect parks of this country would never be properly administered until we had to which Congress has afforded no facilities whatever to the Secretary of established something in the nature of a national park bureau or other the Interior. method of centralized administration. It was fully appreciated then by Now, as I have said, the discussion of these matters last year resulted those who were present, not only those connected with the Government in a practically unanimous opinion-unanimous as far as I am aware; service but those outside of that service who had to do with park matters, no dissension of any kind appeared to exist with relation to the mat- that the system or lack of system that was then in effect was perfectly ter-a unanimous opinion that we should organize or secure from Con- hopeless. gress the means to organize some form of centralized administration. As you know, the national parks have never had any method of cen- The agitation for congressional action was taken up and supported by tralizing their administration. They have grown up, like Topsy, and various organizations and individuals. It received support from the nobody has taken any care of them as a whole. Each individual park press of all kinds throughout the country-from the newspaper press has secured from Congress that amount of appropriation and that degree and from all the weekly and monthly publications which were interested of attention that local influence was able to obtain in that body. The at all in public matters. It received the support of various influential administration and the Secretary's office in Washington have called the individuals and organizations. The American Civic Association, whose needs of the parks to the attention of Congress from time to time, but SO secretary is here meeting with us again, as its president was last year, far as I have been able to ascertain at that time or since, the parks as a made it rather the particular subject of its annual meeting last year. A whole have never had their matters pressed upon the attention of Congress considerable discussion occurred and resolutions were passed. Its until last year. Each of these parks has problems that are also problems president, Mr. McFarland, and its secretary, Mr. Watrous, together in other parks-questions of road construction, bridge construction, care with others connected with it, gave such active support and influence as and maintenance of the roads and bridges and trails, the concessions with they could to the passage of a bill by Congress. A bill was prepared, regard to hotels, transportation, photography, and other matters of that introduced in the two Houses of Congress, and apparently given favor- 10 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE. 11 able consideration by the committees to which it was referred, but con- outset. We are going to take up the automobile question on its merits ditions at the last session of Congress were such that it was impossible and in due course. The ordinary methods of agitation have been em- to procure any actual legislation on the subject. ployed, and my secretary, I think, has finished opening a number of tele- The discussion with regard to inadequate appropriations produced a grams, substantial copies of each other, which the automobile associa- little result in some instances. We got a little start toward an increased tions have thought might have some influence on this gathering or on appropriation for the Yosemite, but the policy of the Democratic party, the Secretary. Of course an official letter by the executive officers of particularly in the direction of reduced appropriation on the theory of these organizations would have had just the same effect and saved con- cutting down expenses of the Government, of course, naturally stood in siderable expense. However, if the gentlemen who are interested wish the way, as a general principle. It was very difficult to get any consider- to show their interest by paying for telegrams, I have no possible objection ation, and I may say that increased park appropriations did not receive to that course. I doubt if I shall have time to read them all; but I shall the vigorous support of some of the gentlemen of another party-my own have my secretary classify them, and any that contain anything besides party-that I would like to have seen. I am not discussing the question a desire that the parks shall be open to automobiles I will look at. Per- as a political matter at all, but merely reciting the facts. The result was haps to-day the best thing to do is to hear informally, publicly, from the that we failed to get either the increased appropriations or the remedial various park superintendents with regard to those matters that they legislation that we very much need. I think, however, we have made a would like to call before the conference as a whole, particularly as to con- substantial beginning in the growth of public sentiment, in calling the ditions since our last meeting, and a general discussion of any of the ques- matter to the attention of Congress in an effective way, and I am not tions that may be presented can be had later-either this afternoon or without hope that at the coming session of Congress we may be able to get at some other time, to be determined at the end of this meeting. We some action taken. There was some difference of opinion with regard to will later have an executive meeting of the park superintendents, at the particular form of the action that should be taken-as to whether which they may wish to discuss some of the questions that they think there should be a bureau created or whether we should at first, at least, should be presented in that way. simply take steps that would enable us to get more effective work in the To-morrow morning, if we do not find reason to change the plans Secretary's office without the creation of a bureau-I mean, whether and have then progressed far enough with the other program, we will Congress might not prefer the second alternative, and confine its action to hear from the transportation people, the railroad representatives and the passage of the necessary appropriations to enable us to employ park others, and from the gentlemen who are interested in the automobile. experts and engineers to assist in the administration of these affairs in the In that connection, I would suggest to the latter gentlemen, if possible, Secretary's office, together with some additional assistance on the clerical and I see no reason why it is not possible, that they agree upon, say, two side for that express purpose. I think a very considerable sentiment or three persons who will present the special matters in which they are existed in favor of the latter plan. I know that many Members of Con- interested, and thus avoid unnecessary repetition of arguments or sug- gress in speaking to me expressed the opinion that the National Park gestions. Bureau should be created, but that possible it might be necessary at first Again expressing my appreciation that so many of you have found it to proceed in the way that I have just indicated. interesting and convenient to come here, especially those who are not in Now, we have very many questions to discuss here to-day; some of the official service of the Government, I will declare this meeting open, them are subjects for open sessions and some of them for executive ses- and start by asking Col. Brett, as the representative of the park that sions. There are questions of very great importance affecting all the perhaps stands out most in the public eye in point of interest and attend- phases of park administration. One of the important questions now ance, to begin the meeting by telling about the conditions in the Yellow- before us is the question of the admission of automobiles to national stone Park as they are now and the changes that have occurred since parks and the terms upon which they should be admitted if they are to be our last meeting. admitted, either to this park or to any other park. That, as I have said, is Col. BRETT. Mr. Secretary, Superintendents, and others: The need a very important question. It is by no means the only question. It is for a bureau of national parks was particularly emphasized in the by no means the most important question we have to discuss, but there Yellowstone this season and in the latter part of the season of 1911. are a considerable number of individuals here who are enthusiastic users On the ist day of August, 1911, all the money that had been appro- of the automobile, and I suppose they regard it as a matter of first impor- priated for roads, bridges, sprinkling of same, and general improve- tance-possibly they think it was the purpose for which this conference ments was exhausted. There was not a rainy day in August of 1911. was called. If so, it is just as well to disabuse them of the idea right at the The consequence was that the surfacing of the roads practically blew 92 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE. 93 travel either in the automobile or animal-drawn vehicles. Now, the AFTERNOON SESSION, OCTOBER 15. whole matter it seems hinges on this one point, and it is a matter of opinion-what is the reasonable protection against such risk; and it The SECRETARY. I think, perhaps, this would be an appropriate time seems to me that is a question for the engineers. to hear from Mr. Watrous, the secretary of the American Civic Associa- The SECRETARY. Maj. Cheney, have you anything to say on the tion, who has some matters which we would like to have him present. engineering question here? Mr. WATROUS. Mr. Secretary, ladies, and gentlemen, one might hesi- Maj. CHENEY. Well, hardly in an engineering way, Mr. Secretary. tate to talk before any audience that has listened as we have listened to Engineers don't like to discuss engineering questions when they have not the eloquence of one who knows the Yosemite as Mr. John Muir knows it. started in an engineering way. I have only made some little personal But it happens to fall to me to take that hesitating step. Just to be here observations of the roads. I have been from the floor up to Inspiration in the Yosemite makes one wish either for the gift of eloquence that he Point, and last year I went out to Crane Flat over the Big Oak Flat Road. might voice his impressions, or for the opportunity to retire to the fast- Not, however, looking at them from a point of view of their use by nesses Mr. Muir has spoken of to contemplate in silence the beauty and automobiles. The question was not in my mind at the time and SO I glory of our surroundings. Most of us will leave the Yosemite without have scarcely compiled anything of any material value from that source. indulging in either eloquence or extended contemplation. I surely shall The SECRETARY. You have heard the suggestion here that we have a not attempt eloquence, but simply rise to tell you that it is a very great report of the engineer employed by the Los Angeles people who will pleasure to be here this year and to represent the American Civic Asso- prepare and furnish us a statement showing just what he thinks is neces- ciation, as last year the same association was represented at Yellowstone sary and we can check that and make our own estimates on it. I sup- Park by our president, Mr. McFarland, to whom our good Secretary pose, from what you say, you think it would be better to defer any state- made such a pleasant reference yesterday. ment with regard to that matter until you have made such examination I presume I have traveled as great a distance to attend this conference and report? as any of my confrères excepting those officially connected with the Maj. CHENEY. Yes, sir. Government, who also have come from Washington. I am here because The SECRETARY. Well, then, gentlemen, it looks as though the general the association which it is my pleasure to represent and serve has always principles were fairly well agreed-I wouldn't want to say it was unani- taken a very deep interest in the general subject of the preservation of mous-but I would state my own impression from it that the funda- landscape and the development of outdoor art, and especially in our mental question here is an engineering question and it ought to be national parks and monuments, which, by wise fortune, have been checked up from an engineering point of view. The engineer from Los secured and set aside by legislation for the people of this country and Angeles seems to think we ought to spend $25,000 in one case, and he is for the people of the world. We are to be congratulated that we are prepared to make a written report as to just how that ought to be done. blessed with these parks; that they may be passed down as a priceless Mr. HAWKINS. May I answer that, sir? There is a considerable dele- heritage to those who come after us this beautiful park in which Mr. gation here from Los Angeles. I live in San Francisco. I have no criti- Muir has spent so many years. Not only this park, but the Yellowstone, cism of their enthusiasm and their progressiveness. I just want to point the Mount Rainier, the Glacier, and others, including the monuments. out to you that by their method they can come by the northern route, But we are not administering these parks as their worth demands. We the Big Oak Flat Road, only 24 miles over a great State highway farther are going along the route of least resistance and leaving undone many than the southern route, but if we from San Francisco must come the things that should be donc. southern route to the valley that is a hundred miles farther than the If I may indulge in a little vision, it would be that within a very few northern route, thereby removing this magnificent park 100 miles years there may be other national park conferences, presided over by farther from San Francisco and very much nearer Los Angeles. a Secretary of the Interior-and I could wish that it might be yourself, The SECRETARY. The gentlemen would just see that much more of the Mr. Secretary-but with one acting as secretary of the conference who scenic beauty of this wonderful State, and that extra hundred miles would is not a chief clerk of the Department of the Interior but a director of be traversed in machines now in SO short a space of time under the excel- a national parks service, with all the dignity that might go with such a lent road system you have it would really be a pleasure. title, and backed by the authority that might be conferred upon him by We will now adjourn until 3 o'clock this afternoon. Congress. In this connection may I pay a tribute-and I think the Secretary will permit me to pay it-to our chief clerk, who to-day is handling a great variety of details that pass through his office? I am 94 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE. 95 not violating any confidence when I say that of all those details he loves that they have been using pictures given them by the Department of the best the ones relating to our national parks. Those are the details to Interior to illustrate those editorials and news items. There is going to be which he gives his attention in his hours at home in the evening and a great deal more of that same kind of work. There were reasons during after hours at the office in the daytime, for we must remember that the early sessions of this Congress for not making a direct effort for the the parks under the present arrangement have to receive but such passage of the bureau bill which was introduced in the early days of the passing attention as can be given them from day to day after a multi- session. We believe, however, the time will be ripe when Congress reas- plicity of other details are cared for. Patents are issued and expire by sembles to urge the passage of that bill, providing for the creation of a limitation; pensions are put on the roll and expire with the sweep of the national park service. It can be passed if the people of this country will scythe of time; but the parks are to endure through all time, and we must make themselves heard. I am very glad to appear to-day, by courtesy see to it that they do endure in just as near their pristine beauty as of the Secretary, as a representative of the association which has the possible, without encroachments of any kind. They must be preserved machinery in Washington through which you can work to bring about in their natural beauty. But we must be very practical in their admin- the passage of this bill. We want your cooperation, you men of the West istration. and of the Central States, and of the East. We need it and request it, and As I said before, we have been doing things in a hit-and-miss way. we want you to be quick to respond to a call that may come to you some There has been no uniformity of legislation. The parks, as you know, day to direct letters and telegrams to your Members in Congress, stating are created under a great variety of acts. It is hard to find out just what that it is your desire and urgent request that they vote for the passage of act creates this park and that park; and the same is true of the monu- the park-service bill. Our association fills the necessary function of a ments. We must have a uniformity of administration for the sake of the propaganda agency. larger results we are to get, for the development and maintenance of the You know as well as I that the Department of the Interior can not be parks, and for the sake of efficiency. This subject of efficiency is one a propaganda agency. Its officers, of course, want this bureau. They that is being brought out very prominently before business men and very realize better than we the folly of giving such meager attention and in prominently before the people of this country, because in the present such an unsystematic way to such a large proposition as the control of administration more attention is being given and will be given to the hundreds of thousands of acres of park lands. Surely, the parks have general subject of economy and efficiency than ever before. gotten beyond the day when they can receive but the passing attention Most of you are familiar with the initial steps that have been taken in of a chief clerk. They need the dignified attention of a director who may the creation of a national park service. The American Civic Association, surround himself with just the kind of experts Mr. Muir has recom- more than two years ago, started out with the idea that there should be mended-landscape architects and engineering authorities-who can such a service. It has been working to that end, and last year in Washing- solve the problems we have discussed this morning. Such a bureau can ton, there was held a most notable meeting in connection with the annual bring about order and system, and can secure for the parks the appro- convention of our association, devoted entirely to the subject of national priations that are necessary. parks. It was attended by many of the people of the East who are some The association will have another meeting at Washington on November day to go West and visit the national parks. Among those who addressed 19, 20, and 21, when again one or two sessions will be devoted exclu- that meeting were the President of the United States, the Secretary of the sively to the subject of the national parks. I wish all of you might be Interior, who is our presiding officer to-day, as he was our presiding officer transported to that meeting to take part in and lend your enthusiasm to that night; the president of the American Civic Association, Mr. J. Horace it. We are not asking legislation for the benefit of any one class of McFarland, and in addition there were stories of park life by Mr. Enos business, for any one railroad or all the railroads put together, or for any Mills, and an illustrated description of some of the parks, by Mr. Herbert concessioners. We are interested in working for the creation and the W. Gleason, all familiar names to you. As a result of that meeting, atten- proper maintenance of the great recreation and playgrounds of all the tion was directed to the subject of our parks by the newspaper press and people. We believe that many of our people in the East are making a the magazine press. serious mistake when they close their eyes to the beauties of the West I am not going to tell you just how much letter writing was necessary and set their eyes toward the beauties of the European and Asiatic to get the approval of some of the great monthly and weekly journals, countries. They will some day of course, go to Europe, but they must except to say the approval was secured, and if you have read the maga- not confine their travel in that direction. They must be turned this way, zines and the weeklies as well as the dailies, you know that they have been and of course, if turned this way, it is going to be a material gain to the talking national parks in their editorials and in their news columns and Pacific coast, which is a proper benefit. 96 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE. 97 I wish that the president of the association might have been here to identified with any such movement for the reason it would be used talk to you as he did last year. He wanted greatly to come and asked against the organization of a national park bureau and prove a detri- me to convey his particular greetings to you. He is backed by our ment. This work might be taken up without any organization by officers and thousands of members in the East and in the West who are having some one interested take up the work of enlisting the commercial as zealous as he for the complete development and further dignifying of organizations of the national park States, and through them reaching our national parks. every Member of Congress from a national park State. In that way I Mr. Secretary, there was handed to me at noon to-day, and before I think we can carry it through. had time to submit it to you, a resolution which it is thought might be Mr. MARTIN. If I am permitted to say anything in response to your passed by this conference recommending the creation of such a bureau, inquiry as to differing opinions on the question of the resolution, since and I submit it to you and ask if it be wise to read it and ask to have it Mr. Steel has made this suggestion, if you will permit, I would like to passed. say just a word to you of the strongest indorsement of the plan that Mr. Steel has suggested. When I received an invitation to attend this Believing that the administration of the various national parks and monuments could be conducted with greater efficiency, that they would receive more and more conference I was gratified, because I felt that I had accumulated in the favorable recognition by Congress for their development and maintenance and year and a half of my residence in the West a great deal of valuable that there might be brought about a definite, systematic, and continuous policy for information to which the department was properly entitled. Coming their administration: Be it here and hearing these matters so thoroughly discussed, gradually my Resolved, That it is the sense of this conference that there should be created in the ideas of the importance of my convictions have vanished into thin air. Department of the Interior a separate bureau for the conduct of all business pertaining to the national parks and monuments of our country, to be known as the national The ideas that I had felt have been formed better by others and expressed park service. more forcibly than I could express them. Mr. Steel suggests a line The SECRETARY. You have heard the proposed resolution. I think that I think admirable, and I would say in that connection that the this can be included in the record. Has anyone present any objection Northwest has joined in a hand-in-hand organization that relates to work to the principle or sentiment expressed in the resolution? If so, we would for the Mount Rainier National Park, and it seems to me that the spirit be glad to have our attention called to the matter and the grounds or and purpose of that organization can properly be extended, and I was reasons for their difference of opinion. mighty glad to find the American Civic Association' had taken up this There seems to be no such difference of opinion. If there is none, we work, and I have the pleasure to-day of joining, for the organizations have the necessary information. that I represent, that association, and pledging to its representative Now, the next subject that we have before us is the question of the here our strongest affiliation and effort that we can put behind his work. private holdings in the national parks. I don't know, Mr. Steel, just how this can be brought about, but the Mr. STEEL. Mr. Secretary, before you proceed to that, can I say a organizations of the Northwest, recognizing as we do the tremendous word on the question just touched on? use that lies in these national parks, will be glad to join in that plan The SECRETARY. Proceed. and give it all the force that time and money can put behind it. Mr. STEEL Mr. Secretary, the question, I believe, on which we are The SECRETARY. Now we will take up this question of the private more united than on any other, is that of the creation of a national park holdings in the parks. I think perhaps, Mr. Curtin, we might as well bureau. That was discussed a year ago and I had the privilege of attend- take your matter first-the immediate matter here in hand. Will you ing the American Civic Association meeting in Washington last year please tell us briefly and in a general way what the proposition is, and and know the results there. I know the enormous influence it has. we will take up anything on the map. It is a very strong factor in working upon the Members of Congress, Mr. CURTIN. The question I am interested in personally, as well as one but an idea has occurred to me that it is possible we might also assist or two of my immediate friends, is the elimination of patented land out this work very materially. The idea occurred to me last evening, in its of the park, along the north boundary. crude form, that there might be an organization here for the purpose The SECRETARY. It seems unfortunate that there is no way of extin- of getting the Members of Congress from the national park States together. guishing them by purchase. Immediately after that, however, it occurred to me that this is totally Mr. CURTIN. That is a legal impossibility. Not being able to do that impracticable for the reason that it would not do for superintendents of legally, then those who are in the park-holding lands in the park that parks to have anything to do with such an organization, and it further are bought, paid for, and patented-either ought to have those lands occurred to me it would be totally unwise for any concessioner to be 95735°-13-1 144 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARK CONFERENCE. syth and his engineers check it, and then I intend under my official obligation to decide as between any points of difference which may then still exist what I think should be done. If it is necessary to enable me to decide it intelligently to have some one else examine it who is not representing either you or the Army engineers, this will be done. What I am after is the facts, and I am going to be just as critical in examina- tion of the gentlemen opposed to the automobile as I have been in INDEX. examining those in favor of them. Mr. McSTAY. The Automobile Club of Southern California, when the Secretary gets to the certain point where his hands are tied-it is going Page. Advertising, discussion of Page. 50 Marshall, R. B., remarks by to take money-let me tell you that we are a live organization- Automobiles, discussion of 4,125-127 58-144 Martin, T. H., remarks by not only our southern California people, but California is full of live Arant, W. F., remarks by 23-26,97,142 27, Matson, - remarks by 83-84 109, 122-124, 127-128, 137 Mentzer, C. I., remarks by organizations who are in a position to assist the Secretary in securing Boland, W. M., remarks by 73-77 36-37 Mesa Verde Park, conditions in Bond, Frank, remarks by 30-31 these funds, which are absolutely necessary. You put the question to 41,104 Monuments. See National monuments. Boundaries of Yosemite Park, discussion of 97-109 Mordecai, - remarks by 81-82 us or made the statement that it would probably be necessary for that Brett, L. M., remarks by 11-13 Mount Rainier Park, conditions in 21-27 $40,000 road. I understand Capt. Whitman's position. Capt. Whit- Byrne, J. J., remarks by 48-50 Muir, John, remarks by 43 Burley, D. E., remarks by 52 Myers, H. H., remarks by man knows that that lower road is the natural, practical, scenic road. 134-135 Chapman, R. H., remarks by 18-21 National monuments, condition of 41-42 He knows that the expenditure of $40,000 will open up the highest Charlton, A. D., remarks by 53-54 Nelson, Fernando, remarks by 90-91 Cheney, S. A., remarks by 92 Parker, O. K., remarks by 68 grades of the mountains of the Sequoia Park and he doesn't want to Child, H. W., remarks by 52 Parsons, E. T., remarks by 58,141 temporize. He wants the proper road opened. I believe he has got the Colby, W. E., remarks by 137-141 Patented lands, discussion of 97-109 Coulterville & Yosemite Turnpike Co., let- Pillsbury, A. C., remarks by 115-117, proposition, and I want to say that if the Department of the Interior ter from 74 121,122,143 Crater Lake Park, automobiles in will avail itself of what assistance we can give in securing the necessary 122- Platt Park, conditions in 27-30 124,127-128, Private lands, discussion of 97-109 legislation, we will be very glad to take it up good and strong. Curtin, J. B., remarks by 68-73,97-98,100-109 Publicity, discussion of 50 The SECRETARY. Don't use that "if." The department will welcome Dezendorf, F. C., remarks by 142-143 Railroad rates, discussion of 49 Estes Park, automobiles in 125 Raker J. E., remarks by 43-44 your assistance. I said in the beginning and all the way through that Fee, C. S., remarks by 45-47.55 Rates, railroads, discussion of 49 Flint, Frank, remarks by 61-68 that is what we want. Get busy. Schmidt, W. F., remarks by Forsyth, W. W., remarks by 54 13-18, Sequoia and General Grant Parks, automo- With that we will adjourn. 01,99-100, 102, 102-104, 106-109, 120, 129-130 biles in 111-122 French, W. J., remarks by 27-30,130-131 Conditions in Fry. Walter, remarks by 31-35 32-34, 113,117-119 Shoemaker, S. E., remarks by Glacier Park, conditions in 30-31 18-21 Steel, W. G., remarks by Grazing, regulation of 96,142 106-108 Sullys Hill Park, conditions in 35-36 General Grant Park. See Sequoia and Gen- Valentine, W. L., remarks by 121 eral Grant Parks 31-35 Walker, P. J., remarks by 77-81,131-136 Hall, E. S., remarks by 21-23 Watrous, R. B., remarks by 93-96 Harvey, F. F., remarks by 55 Watson, - remarks by 66-68 Hawkins, C. A., remarks by 85-89,92 Weinstock, Harris, remarks by Hot Springs, conditions at 77 38-41 Wind Cave Park, conditions in Hotels in Yosemite Park, discussion of 36-37 17-18,47 Whitman, W. M., remarks by Hughes, James, remarks by 31-33, 56-57 111-113,121,128 Lehmer, O. W., remarks by 51-52,89 Yellowstone Park, conditions in Lovell, C. H., remarks by 11-13 80 Yosemite Park, boundaries of, discussion of McLean, M. H., letters from 97-109 74-75 Conditions in 13-18 McStay, C. H., remarks by. 85, III, 114, 122, 143-144 Ziebach, C. M., remarks by 35-36 95735°-13-10 145 O 1911 524 Index to Vol. XXV. [PARTS LXII.-LXIV.] Index to Vol. XXV. 525 Davenport, R. B., Death-blow to Spiritualism, reference to - 417 (foot-note) Exile and Moore, Cross-Correspondence Davey, S. J., Experiments in Slate-Writing, references to 106, 426, 440, 441 149, 155, 156, 186, 209, 210, 212, 223, 262, 264, 265, 269-271, 286 Davies, Emma. See The Wem Disturbances. Davis, W. S., Report on Sittings with Eusapia Palladino, reference to 57, 59, F. Dawn. See "The One-Horse Dawn Experiment. FAY, MRS. Eva, Alleged Mediumship of, reference to 418 (foot-note) Derrygonnelly Disturbances, the 390 Fechner, Panpsychic View of the Universe, reference to 27 Devereux, Owen, Evidence as to the Enniscorthy Disturbances - 385 Feilding, the Hon. Everard, and W. Marriott, Report on a Further Diamond Island Incident 293 Series of Sittings with Eusapia Palla- Diana, Cross-Correspondence, reference to 105 dino at Naples 57 Dickinson, G. Lowes, A Case of Emergence of a Latent Memory under " " Baggally, W. W., Note on 69 Hypnosis, by 455 " " Control, the Question of Didier, Alexis, Case of, reference to 76 57, 58, 60-63, 64-67, 69 Divining Rod. See Dowsing Experiments. " " Detailed Account of the Table-Lifting Documentary Evidence, Contemporary, Extant - 115, 116, 472, 473 Incident 63, 64, 65-67 Donaldson. Theatre of the Greeks, reference to 273, 274 " " Fraud, Question of 58, 59, 61 Door =Dorr) and Key and Lethe-Dorr Cross-Correspondence " " Negative Conclusions, 58, 59 121-30, 191, 193-204, 219, 222, 226, 229, 234, 239, 250, 285 " " Petrovo-Solovovo, Count Perovsky, " Summary of 203 Statement and Note by - 59, 64 Dorr, G. B., Sittings with Mrs. Piper: series of 1908; chief refer- " " Countess Solovovo, Note by 65 ences to 80, 84, 95, 104-105,116, 120, 121, 150-156, 158-166, 176-217, " " " Commenton by Miss Alice Johnson 67 218-229, 231-237, 245, 251-53, 258, 260-62, 264, 269, 272, 273, 276, 279, " " Previous Series of Sittings, reference to 299-301, 317 373, 420, 427, 445, 446 See also Door =Dorr) and Key and Lethe-Dorr, Cross-Corre- Fire Test, Alleged Phenomena of 75, 422, 442 spondence, and the Willett Script. Firth, J. B., The Minstrelsy of Isis, edited by, reference to 251 Doves. See Golden Bough (Doves and). FitzGerald, E., Translation of Omar Khayyam, Script reference to 262 Dowsing, Barrett, Prof. W. F., on, reference to 365 " Cup, Cross-Correspondence and 306, 313-319 Dreams, Mental Activity during, Poem composed in 268 (foot-note) See also Door ( = Dorr) and Key, Cross-Correspondence. - Flavicomata Incident - See also Premonitions and Telepathy. 149, 160-163, 192 Dublin University Magazine, The Demons of Derrygonnelly, Prof. W. F. Flournoy, Professor Th., Esprits et Médiums by, Review by the Rev. 390 M. A. Bayfield 468 Barrett on, in, Dufferin, Lady, Script reference to song by, The Bay of Dublin 263 (foot-note) Forbes (Talbot) Control 199, 201 "Forbes, Mrs.," Door and Key, Cross-Correspondence 191, 193, 199-204, 222, 250 E. Fox-Jencken, Mrs., Alleged Mediumship of 415 (foot-note), 416, 417, 419 Echo and Narcissus, Cross-Correspondence Fox-Kane, Mrs., Alleged Mediumship of 416,417,419 160, 222, 226, 228, 231, 232, 244, 245, 253, 271, 285, 286 Freer. See Goodrich-Freer, Miss A. Eheu fugaces, Cross-Correspondence, reference to 236 Freud, Professor S., Methods of Psycho-Analysis, reference to - 347-349 Eglinton, W., Alleged Mediumship of 439, 440 Ellis, Professor Robinson, The Tenth Declamation of (Pseudo) Quin- G. tilian, by, Review of, by F. C. S. Schiller 361 G., Dr., Hypnotie experiments of 455 Elongation and Contraction of Mediums alleged (D. D. Home) - 75, 422 Ganymede Incident 149, 160, 192 Enniscorthy Disturbances, the 380 Gasparin, Comte de, Researches of, reference to 441 Euripides, Cross-Correspondence, reference to 52, 280, 281 Gautier, Théophile, The Hugo-Gautier-Montenaeken Cross-Corre- Eurydice. See Orpheus and Eurydice. spondence, Mrs. A. W. Verrall on 320-337 2L SB 482 lational Parks 508.13 .A4 A44 AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION'S MOVE- 1911 FOR A BUREAU OF NATIONAL PARKS NH President Taft on a. National TER Parks Bureau ADDRESS ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1911 The Need for a Bureau of National Parks ADDRESS OF HON. WALTER L. FISHER Secretary of the Interior Are National Parks Worth While? ANNUAL ADDRESS BY MR. J. HORACE McFABLAND President American Civic Association Smithsonian Institution C NOV 21 1919 223962 National Miser PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL PARKS SESSION OF THE AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION, HELD WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1911, IN THE NEW WILLARD HOTEL, WASHINGTON. D.C., AS PART OF ITS SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION SMIT HSUNIAN For a Bureau of 2003 National Parks ARE NATIONAL PARKS LIBRARIES SPECIAL MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT TAFT TO WORTH WHILE? CONGRESS, FEBRUARY 2, 1912 SD ment of a Bureau of National Parks. Such to the national parks of the United States, with ton, D. C., December I3, 14 and 15, was devoted exclusively vention of the American Civic Association. held at Washing- The one evening session of the Seventh Annual Con- "I earnestly recommend the establish- legislation is essential to the proper manage- ment of those wondrous manifestations of reference Bureau to the necessity of creating by Congress a especial Federal make of Parks, within the Department of the Interior, to nature, so startling and so beautiful that possible their more adequate administration. everyone recognizes the obligations of the Government to preserve them for the edifica- and introduced the several distinguished speakers of the Hon. Walter L. Fisher, Secretary of the Interior, presided, evening, all of whom were staunch advocates of a more com- tion and recreation of the people. prehensive development of the great national parks. The "The Yellowstone Park, the Yosemite, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, the Glacier States, who had in his recent annual message to Congress most distinguished speaker was the President of the United creation of a Bureau of National Parks. (and later in a special message) strongly recommended the National Park and the Mount Rainier National Park and others furnish appropriate in- stances. In only one case have we made PRESIDENT TAFT'S ADDRESS anything like adequate preparation for the use of a park by the public. That case is Ladies and Gentlemen: the Yellowstone National Park. Every con- sideration of patriotism and the love of na- is the first ambition of any one responsible for a It costs a good deal of money to run a government, and sition economy-at least it ought to be. Therefore, government the ture and of beauty and of art requires us to to add a bureau or a department sends gooseflesh propo- all expend money enough to bring all these in over the body of anyone who has any sort of responsibility natural wonders within easy reach of our respect to the finances of the government, for it people. The first step in that direction is Yet another nucleus for the increase of governmental expenses. means be, a modern government, in order to be what it ought to the establishment of a responsible bureau, must spend money. Utility involves expense. which shall take upon itself the burden of supervising the parks and of making recom- wonders, and in that lazy way we have in our Government Now, we have in the United States a great many natural a first taking up one thing and then another, we have set aside of mendations as to the best method of improv- what number of national parks, of forest reservations, covering ing their accessibility and usefulness.' "national monuments." We have said to ourselves, "Those ought to be national parks, and what are called cannot get away. We have surrounded them by a law which makes them necessarily Government property forever, and (3) AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION ARE NATIONAL PARKS WORTH WHILE? 4 5 we will wait in our own good time to make them useful as Secretary Fisher, in following the President, explained in parks to the people of the country. Since the Interior De- detail "The Need for a Bureau of National Parks," pointing partment is the 'lumber room' of the Government, into out the limitations of the existing provisions for their admin- which we put everything that we don't know how to classify, istration and emphasizing the larger and more dignified and don't know what to do with, we will just put them under administration that would be possible with a regularly the Secretary of the Interior." That is the condition of the constituted bureau. national parks today. Those of you who have first been in the Yellowstone Park ADDRESS OF and admired its beauties, and thought of the ability of the army engineers to construct such roads as are there there, HON. WALTER L. FISHER and then have gone on to the Yosemite and have seen its Secretary of the Interior beauties, and found the roads not quite so good, and then have gone to the Grand Canyon, and found a place where you could During the past summer, or early fall-I have forgotten n.p. bury the Yellowstone Canyon and the Yosemite, and never for the moment the exact date-there was held at the Yellow- know that they were there, and found no roads at all, except stone Park the first conference that had ever been held of a railroad that was built at a great expense, and probably at the people who were interested in a practical way in the great loss, to the side of the Canyon, and only a trail called administration of the national parks and in the various in- the "Bright Angel Trail," down into the Canyon-down terests that lead up to and are connected with them, such as which they would not let me go because they were afraid the the railroads and the concessionaires for the hotel privileges, mules could not carry me-you will understand that some- transportation privileges, photographic concessions, and thing needs to be done in respect to those parks if we all are matters of that sort within the parks. I have not seen the to enjoy them. tabulation of the roster of that conference, but my recollection I am in favor of equality of opportunity, and I resent an of it is that there were in attendance something in excess of exclusion from the enjoyment of the wonders of the world one hundred. This conference was the result of an effort that it only needs a little money to remove! which had gone on for some considerable time on the part of Now the course that was taken in respect to the Yellow- the chief clerk of the Department of the Interior, Mr. Ucker, stone Park ought to be taken in respect to all of our parks. and Mr. Carr, who is the next in command in that line of If we are going to have national parks, we ought to make administration, and the other people connected with the them available to the people, and we ought to build the roads, administration of the parks in the office of the Secretary. expensive as they may be, in order that those parks may They were joined in this, however, and had been in the pre- become what they are intended to be when Congress creates liminary arrangements and discussions, as I understand it, them. And we cannot do that, we cannot carry them on by the representatives of this organization, the American effectively, unless we have a bureau which is itself distinctly Civic Association, and others who were interested in the gen- charged with the responsibility for their management and eral subject of the improvement of our national parks. The for their building up. conference that was held was a very practical one. There When the Secretary of the Interior, therefore, asked me were a great number of developments considered by those to come here, and told me the subject of the meeting tonight, who had been asked to prepare suggestions upon particular I was glad to come. It is going to add to the expense of the phases of park management and control and other matters Interior Department, and it is going to swell those estimates, connected with the national parks, and they were followed but it is essential that we should use what the Lord has given by general discussions from the floor, and, of course, much us in this way, and make it available for all the people. We discussion and much talk quietly during the various recesses have the money. It is not going to take enough to exhaust the and in the evening. Treasury. It is a proper expense, a necessary expense. Let The American Civic Association, very naturally and us have the bureau. properly, was represented at that meeting by its long-time 6 AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION ARE NATIONAL PARKS WORTH WHILE? 7 president, who is so well known to you and to the country at large for his work in this direction. The discussions that may be three or four parks where these problems are so went on, of course, related mainly to the question of what we similar that the general specifications, the general principles could do to improve our national parks to make them more that should be applied, are identical, but they may differ from another class of these parks. accessible to the public, and more attractive to the public. Take many of the other questions that are raised in the I do not know whether I shall in any way intrude upon the field which is to be covered by Mr. McFarland in his address, parks. The whole question of the protection and disposition of the trees, the concessions, how the hotel concessions shall or by Senator Smoot, but I think it is proper I should call to be managed, what requirements shall be made of the hotel your attention, for fear that they may not speak of, or be able to include in their remarks, some of the things that we proprietors, what regulations shall be made with regard to the casual ordinary visitor for his protection and so that he often pass by, but which may be interesting and instructive may receive the proper sort of service. These are very similar to you and I think are to be considered. in all these parks, or, at all events, it is quite apparent that In the first place, the national parks, like Topsy, have "just growed;" at least that is the impression which has been an examination into any given question in one of the parks would throw a great deal of light upon the same problem when produced upon my mind from such investigation and dis- it arises in other of the parks. cussion as I have given to them. There is no consistent I mention these things, simple as they may seem, to call theory of legislation with regard to the national parks. While your attention to the singular fact that, although there has some of them follow the general lines of previous statutes, been a great deal of talk of improved efficiency in our Govern- there are wide variations in the statutory authority under ment affairs, we have absolutely no machinery and no legal which the parks are carried on today. The whole park work authority to use any machinery for the coordination of these of some states is wholly different from that of others, and parks so we may state this problem as a whole. The only the situation in detail is almost radically divergent. For thing we can possibly do in the way of coordination in the instance, I find some such question as this: Whether the Interior Department is to see that questions that come to revenues derived from a particular national park shall be us for determination are referred to the same individuals in available for the use of that park, its improvement and de- the Department. We can see that the chief clerk, or his velopment. We have no consistent action. Two of our assistant, shall primarily pass upon these matters; we may important parks are without statutory authority to that say that the assistant secretary-as distinguished from the effect, so that such revenue as is derived from the park first assistant, there being two-shall be the person to whom itself in any way has to go back into the general fund of appeals shall go, the person to whom the chief clerk shall go the Nation, to be used in such a way as that derived from any for final determination of questions of importance; and we other general source is used, and appropriated directly and do. When we have done that we are through. We may use specifically for that purpose. In other parks a very large per our Division of Mails and Files. We may use our Division cent of the money available is directly available without of Publications and get a certain amount of effective work appropriation. The same thing is true with regard to appro- there; and we have Mr. Schmeckebier of that Division, who priations which Congress gives to the parks. The importance has accomplished some quite remarkable results, in my and the political pressure which a particular park possesses judgment, in the publicity line simply in getting out some bring to it appropriations larger than those which may be material to those who are eager to have it. We have found given to another. The result is that we have no consistent that the American public is greedy for real news about the theory of park administration. national parks; that it is genuinely interested in the national There are many questions which any one could see at a parks and ready to get anything that is not simply per- glance are similar in all these parks. Take, for instance, the functory news upon this subject. But when we have done question of road-making. We have practically the same prob- these things the Department of the Interior is through. That lems in all of the parks with regard to road-making; at least is all that it can do toward coordination. It would seem in a very considerable number of them. For instance, there that it requires practically no argument to convince that the 8 AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION ARE NATIONAL PARKS WORTH WHILE? 9 one thing we need at once for the efficiency of administration established as promptly as possible a Bureau of National and economy in expenditure is to get these parks together Parks, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, so under some division or bureau where they can receive the that that Bureau might coordinate these parks and their benefit of a central staff, where we can take the men who are administration and vastly improve their condition and their now studying road-making, or the management of roads, or advantage to the public. In this conference, this was not the sprinkling problem-which is, after all, to the traveling merely the expression of foresters, of those interested in the public probably the most important question connected with parks from the theoretical point of view, but the conviction the administration of the parks, because the hotels will do a of men who attended there representing the large railroad certain amount of looking after their own interests along the systems which lead up to those parks and which are directly lines of intelligent and enlightened selfishness. And the interested in them. And it was a very significant thing to revenue is there. But if the roads are to be sprinkled and me, as I think it will be to you, to find that the Northern taken care of, that must be done purely as a matter of ex- Pacific Railroad Company, whose road leads to one of our penditure, and unless it is looked after by the administrative principal parks, was, and is, much in favor, through its rep- force it will not be looked after at all. resentatives, of having a National Park Bureau established, Now it is perfectly apparent what we ought to have. We embracing other parks as well, purely from a scenic point of ought to have some sort of a central organization, something view. In other words, each particular railroad, which led to in the nature of a bureau, with a head and subordinates, so a particular park, was not interested solely in working for we can get proper expert talent and men who will devote that park, but these men have reached that degree of en- their time to these matters, not merely with regard to one lightenment in their selfishness-in their self-interest-that park but all the parks where the questions arise. It is per- they have come to the conclusion that it was for their own fectly apparent that if we were studying any one of these best interest to have a National Park Bureau established. questions with regard to any one of these parks, and were I have talked this matter over with the President, and confined to that and the appropriation for that park, we I know that he is favorably interested init, and that he gladly could not get as good a man to study the problems in the accepted the suggestion that he come over here this evening case of the others. And, in the second place, after we have to meet this audience and express his own views in favor of done it once, unless we can utilize his advice and experience this movement in which the American Civic Association is some place else we won't get it at all. Then, another thing. taking so prominent and leading a part. But you do not We get rid of a good many of these isolated and separate expect me to fill the stage this evening to the exclusion of and distinct appropriations. We would not have several those who have been regularly selected as speakers, and appropriations made distinctly for the Yellowstone Park particularly not to take the place of, or infringe upon the and made for the Yosemite Park and so on down the line, time allowed to, Mr. McFarland, President of the American and each appropriation confined to that particular park or Civic Association. Recognizing, as I do, the practical and some particular function or interest in that park, but we vigorous manner in which he has gone into this, as he has would begin to learn that many of these problems are alike, into most of the other problems in which the American that it is not enough to treat one park in one way and another Civic Association is interested, I feel that we have gained an in another way. We would have our Bureau bring forward ally-I should not put it that way-that we are allies with the things in our parks which now do not receive particular him, and that we are willing to help him and this Association attention, very largely through ignorance of the subject in carrying on this work and see that we get from this coming because the experience of the particular man who has that Congress, if possible, a bill along the lines of that which park in charge has not been so great as has been that of Senator Smoot has advocated, which will permit of the estab- some other man. lishment of a bureau of the sort I have described. The result of all these reflections was that the conference I take pleasure in presenting Mr. McFarland. [Applause.] to which I have referred was, so far as we were able to ascer- tain, unanimous upon the proposition that there should be AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION ARE NATIONAL PARKS WORTH WHILE? II raged in Greater New York around the idea of diverting a ADDRESS OF portion of Central Park from the service of the relatively MR. J. HORACE McFARLAND few in the way of purely pleasure development to the service of the very many through the establishment of well-equipped President American Civic Association playgrounds. Yet inquiry has developed that, in 1909, 74 American "ARE NATIONAL PARKS WORTH WHILE?" cities owned 41,576 acres of parks, an average of about four- tenths of an acre to the 100 of their population, and spent There can be only a negative reply to the query of the upon them that year for maintenance-that is, to make them subject, unless it be conclusively shown that the national of service to the people-an average of $91.42 per acre. parks add definitely something of value to the life or the Some of these cities are in what I call the honor class of resources of the Nation. Mere pride of possession cannot American communities, in that they own and maintain an justify, in democratic America, the removal from develop- acre or more of parks for each hundred of their people. ment of upward of five millions of acres of the public Such cities are Council Bluffs, Minneapolis, Harrisburg, domain. Colorado Springs and Springfield, Ill. THE AMERICAN PARK IDEA PLAYGROUNDS-THE FIRST AIDS TO To establish true value, real worth-whileness, therefore, CHILDHOOD it is necessary to put the national parks on trial. Indeed, as the national parks are but a larger development of municipal, This American service park idea, into which we are in- county and state parks, we may quite properly put on the quiring critically as to its true value, its relative efficiency, stand the whole American park idea. has its intensive development in modern playgrounds-those It is necessary to call the recent rapid development of a first aids to endangered American childhood, of which few certain kind of parks in the United States an American idea, examples are found abroad, and not nearly enough in our for it has no close parallel abroad. Examining, for instance, own county. We have multiplied schools in which to culti- the admirable plan upon which the capital of Belgium has vate the brain. but have delayed long in providing adequate been developing since 1572, we note in Brussels an almost facilities to develop and keep in order the body which houses entire absence of such parks as those of Boston. The present- the brain, Our cemeteries, our juvenile courts and our day plan of Paris shows that inside the old city there had reform schools have increased much more rapidly than the been provided almost as large an area of cemeteries in which means by which the city can hold back the population of the to store the dead as of parks in which to restore the energies one and decrease the business of the others. of the living. Great London has barely an acre of parks for Chicago, for instance, has notably discovered the truth each thousand of her people-only a tenth of the ideal as to this relation between crime and disorder and the small American provision of an acre for every hundred inhabitants. park and social center. It is a departing relation; for in 1909 Even model Berlin is long on municipal forests and short on it was discovered that within a half-mile radius of her twelve well-distributed municipal parks. The recently published splendidly equipped and maintained breathing-spots, veri- Encyclopedia Britannica, written abroad, devotes just table life-saving stations in the midst of the sea of industrial 3I lines to the discussion of the word "park," and I7 of these strain and stress, juvenile delinquency had decreased 44 per lines refer to its military significance! cent, while in the same year it had increased II per cent in So the American service park is a New World idea, and the city as a whole. it is even quite new in the New World; for, at the date of the Here, then, is the first evidence for the defendant at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, parks in the United bar-the American park idea. The service park, the ordered States were few in number, small in extent, and largely upon and supervised playground, act immediately and favorably European models. Within five years, indeed, a contest has on the health and the orderliness of the community, and 12 AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION ARE NATIONAL PARKS WORTH WHILE? 13 consequently increase materially the average of individual of the grimy mill town, the malodorous wharves along our efficiency. In other words, they pay dividends in humanity. navigable rivers? Is it even the lofty metropolitan sky- scraper, or the great transcontinental steel highway? AMERICAN PARK SYSTEMS No; not one of these produces patriotism. Listen to the most sordid materialist who is American in birth or resi- The park idea we are examining has a development in dence, as he boasts: it is always of the beauty of his town, another way. The joining of separated parks by a highway his state, his country! Our devotion to the flag begins in that of green, usually called a parkway, is the step taken when a love of country which its beauty has begotten; it may end, community develops from the simple having of parks to the at the last supreme test, in the beauty of soul that makes proud possession of a park system. The one may merely the patriot ready to die for his country in battle-if just have happened; the other is always the result of a careful battle there may ever again be. plan. Minneapolis, Hartford, Kansas City, Boston, Buffalo Now these parks that have been presented to you, and and other prosperous and advanced American cities have those I am yet to present, are, all of them, planned to show such systems. Chicago has a great plan for a park system, forth the beauty of the land. Never a service park have I and owns some links in the chain which is to bind it together. seen or heard of that failed to use to the utmost the trees An adequate park system, looking toward the future of and the plants, the grass and the flowers that stand for our the city, and giving to every inhabitant easy access without native land. Playgrounds are sometimes, perforce, on limited expense for transportation to the relief of a spot of green, to city spaces, but always there is at least the attempt to get the recreation of a playground, is the most profitable invest- the blue of the sky opened to the boys and girls. Into the ment a city can make. It is profitable in promoting the wel- brick and concrete heart of the city the park brings a little fare of the people; it is profitable in providing along its borders of the primeval outdoors, and here grows best the love of increased taxable values. For instance, Kansas City's Paseo, country which sees with adoration the waving stars and cut through her length, has cleared fully its cost in increased stripes. values, and even old Central Park in New York has returned So I hold that, in safeguarding and stimulating the essen- to the city more than eight times the total amount spent in tial virtue of patriotism, the beauty of the American park purchase and development within sixty years. stands forth as most of all worth while. I urge that, as an I bring then before the court the second witness for the antidote to the teachings of social disorder, as a counter- character and worth-whileness of the American park idea. irritant to the saloon, as a relentless foe to the slum, the Well-considered park improvements always react favorably American park idea in the playground is most completely upon community values. Proper park investments are usually justified. placed at what amounts to compound increment. THE NATION'S LARGER PLAYGROUNDS WHAT FOSTERS TRUE PATRIOTISM? It is but a step across the country and the state park to But there is another witness for the defendant. It is the national park. There come, increasingly in these work- typified in the American flag, the emblem of our national filled American days, times when the tired spirit seeks a existence, the concrete, visible essence of that love of country wider space for change and rest than any city, or indeed, any which manifests itself in the essential virtue of patriotism. state, can provide. The deep forests of the Sierras call, the Consider what it is that inspires us as we sing the national snow-capped peaks of the Rockies beckon. The roar of hymn. Is it our wonder of mining, showing in the hideous Niagara can drown the buzz of the ticker. Old Faithful's ore dumps, the sordid mining village? Is it in the burned- gleaming column of silver spray shuts off the balance sheet. over waste that has followed the cutting of much of our forest El Capitan makes puny the capital of any state, or of the wealth? Is it the powerhouse in which is harnessed the beauty nation. The camp under the oaks of the Hetch-Hetchy of Niagara? Is it the smoking factory chimneys, the houses Valley, near the ripple of the Tuolumne, restores vigor, up- 14 AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION ARE NATIONAL PARKS WORTH WHILE? 15 lifts the wearied spirit. What cathedral of man's building tenance of individual patriotism and federal solidarity. The shows forth the power of God unto health of soul as does the true ideal of their maintenance does not run parallel to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado? The glacier wonderland making of the most timber, or the most pasturage, or the of the Northwest gives us lessons on the building of the most water-power. continent, and the giant sequoias of the Pacific Slope teach Our national parks are young. They are yet undeveloped us of our own littleness. to any considerable extent. But one of them, the Yellow- These national parks, then, are our larger playgrounds. stone, is comfortably accessible. Their value to the nation Everything that the limited scope of the city park can do is potential, more than instant, simply because they are not, as quick aid to the citizen, they are ready to do more thor- as a whole, yet known to our people. The nearest east of oughly, on a greater scale. them is fifteen hundred miles west of the country's center To the vast open spaces, the sight of great mountains, the of population in Indiana. Our people yet cross three thou- opportunity to live a mile or more higher up, they add pos- sand miles of salt water to see less impressive scenery, less sibilities of real life in the open just touched upon as yet, striking wonders, less inspiring majesty in canyon, waterfall even though more than three thousand horses this year and geyser, than they have not seen at home, because the drew their owners on camping trips into the Yellowstone way to Europe has been made broad, comfortable and alone. "fashionable The national playgrounds./too, can, if they are held in- violable, preserve for us, as no minor possessions can, our THE NATIONAL PARKS BUT LITTLE USED unique scenic wonders, our great natural mysteries, The spouting geyser basins and marvelous hot springs of the In 1910, barely two hundred thousand visitors to our Yellowstone, the atmospheric splendors of the Grand Canyon thirteen national parks and our twenty-eight national of the Colorado, the silver threads of the Falls of the Yosem- monuments were reported, but all the east-bound Atlantic ite, the ancient homes of the cliff-dwellers on the Mesa greyhounds were crowded to their capacity. We have not yet Verde, the ice marvels of the Montana glaciers, the blue begun to use the national parks; we have not commenced to marvel of Crater Lake, the towering temples amid the big attract to them a share of the golden travel tide which is said trees of the Sierras-how long would they last unharmed and to have taken from America to Europe $350,000,000 in 1910. free to all the people if the hand of the Federal Government Indeed, we are not ready for visitors in our national parks. was withdrawn from them? Ask harassed, harnessed Niagara We have, as yet, no national park system. The parks have -depending right now for its scenic life upon the will of this just happened; they are not the result of such an overlooking Congress-after, indeed, Congress alone has saved it until of the national domain as would, and ought to, result in a now from state neglect coordinated system. There is no adequately organized control of the national parks. With 41 national parks and monuments, aggregating an area larger than two sovereign THE DIFFERING FUNCTIONS OF FORESTS states, and containing priceless glories of scenery and wonders AND PARKS of nature, we do not have as efficient a provision for admin- The nation now has, it should be said, vast and admirably istration as is possessed by many a city of but fifty thousand handled national forests, potential with profit for all the inhabitants for its hundred or so acres! In a lamentable num- people. But there must be no confusion between the differ- ber of cases, the administration consists solely in the posting ing functions of the forests and the parks. of a few warning notices ! The primary function of the national forests is to supply lumber. The primary function of the national parks is to LACK OF PARK MANAGEMENT maintain in healthful efficiency the lives of the people who must use that lumber. The forests are the nation's reserve Nowhere in official Washington can an inquirer find an wood-lots. The parks are the nation's reserve for the main- office of the national parks, or a desk devoted solely to their 16 AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION ARE NATIONAL PARKS WORTH WHILE? 17 management. By passing around through three departments, Niagara, never more in danger than at this moment, and consulting clerks who have taken on the extra work of must eventually, if it is to be a cataract and not a catastrophe, doing what they can for the nation's playgrounds, it is pos- come under the federal mantle as a national reservation as sible to come at a little information. President Taft has again recently urged. In no other way This is no one's fault. Uncle Sam has simply not waked can America be saved from the lasting disgrace that now up about his precious parks. He has not thrown over them threatens our most notable natural wonder. A nation that the mantle of any complete legal protection-only the Yel- can afford a Panama Canal cannot afford a dry Niagara! lowstone has any adequate legal status, and the Yosemite is There is something inspiring in the thought of a national technically a forest reserve. Selfish and greedy assaults park sacred to the memory of the great liberator, and adding have been made upon the parks, and it is under a legal to the beauty and dignity of the city in which he poured out "joker" that San Francisco is now seeking to take to herself his last full measure of devotion. A Lincoln Memorial without having in ten years shown any adequate engineering National Park, joining the lovely forests between Washington reason for the assault, nearly half of the Yosemite. Three and Baltimore and Annapolis to the Potomac, would be a years ago several of us combined to scotch and kill four thousand times more fitting tribute to the glory of our first vicious legislative snakes under which any one might have martyr than a mere commercial highway. condemned at $2.50 per acre the Great Falls of the Yellow- He whose genius made the nation, and whose wisdom stone, or even entered upon a national cemetery for the planned this Federal City to be a fitting capital for a hundred production of electric power at the same price for the land millions of free people when yet there were but a scant three Now there is light and a determination to do as well for millions clinging to the Atlantic seaboard ought also to be the nation as any little city does for itself. The Great Father thus memorialized. Why shall not Mount Vernon and its of the nation, who honors us tonight by his presence, has environs come into a great Washington Memorial National been the unswerving friend of the nation's scenic possessions. Park which shall link together anew, as it reaches the He has consistently stood for the people's interest in Niagara; Potomac, the fame of our two greatest presidents, and for- he now stands for their interest in the nation's parks. ever blot out a line once fought over in civil warfare? His Secretary of the Interior, the presiding officer of the Nothing is more certain than that eventually the nation evening, has applied his great constructive ability to the will come to own memorial areas, which shall serve a double national park problem. It was at his invitation that the first purpose in their tributes to the departed great and their national park conference was held in September last. He beneficence to the living. Delay means but enhanced and has visited most of the parks, and, coming from a city where compounded cost. With such a truly patriotic provision for intensive park development has proceeded to be a greater the future as well as the present as would be involved in the beneficence than in any other in the world, he comprehends creation of a great national park system, available to the fully the American service park idea. people of the East as well as to those of the West, our federal scenic possessions would come to attract the travel of the THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL PARKS world. Inadequate though they are now, inaccessible as they are now, unadministered as they are now, our national There is, then, hope for the parks. The Congress will not parks have added very definitely to the resources of our people, refuse, I am sure, to enact legislation creating a Bureau of and are well worth while. When they shall have been given National Parks, to the custody of which all the nation's the attention that is in the minds of our President and our pearls of great price shall be entrusted. Under such a Secretary of the Interior, they will increase in efficiency, in bureau, aided by a commission of national prominence and beauty, in extent, and in benefits open to all the people, so scope, I predict that there will be undertaken not only such that they will even more be entirely worth while. ordering of the parks as will vastly increase their use and their usefulness, but such a survey of the land as will result in the Secretary Fisher: "I am sure that there is no one from establishment of many new national parks, before it is too late. whom this audience and the country would rather hear on 18 AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION ARE NATIONAL PARKS WORTH WHILE? 19 this subject than the chairman of the Public Lands Committee of the Senate, who has shown in many ways his interest in MR. HERBERT W. GLEASON. OF BOSTON park questions, and I take great pleasure in introducing to The session concluded with the presentation of "Some you Senator Smoot, of Utah, who will speak on the subject Picturesque Features of Our National Parks," by Mr. Herbert of 'What the National Parks May Mean to the West." W. Gleason, of Boston, illustrated with more than one hun- dred exquisitely colored stereopticon views, the result of Mr. HON. REED SMOOT, SENATOR FROM UTAH Gleason's own observation and visits in the national parks, over a period of many years. These pictures presented The difficulties which are now experienced in administering features unsuspected by the average citizen of the United the affairs of the national parks and in developing them States, and, in particular, drew emphasis to the exquisite after any given plan were emphasized by Senator Smoot. floral life of the national parks. President Taft remained "Separate appropriations are now made for each park, making during nearly the whole of Mr. Gleason's address, which was it impossible for the Secretary of the Interior to concentrate listened to with the utmost gratification. the efforts of his department in their behalf," the Senator said, and in this connection he referred to the subject matter of a bill, which he had introduced in Congress which, he said, would correct this evil and would also result in a saving. "If we do thus centralize the control of the parks," the Senator continued, "I am sure it will make the greatest playgrounds of the nation of vastly more benefit to all of the people. Instead of the expenditure of many millions of dollars traveling to Europe, we will then see the money being spent on American railroads, in American hotels, for American guides and with American merchants and farmers. The PUBLISHED BY THE time will come when it will be both popular and fashionable AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION for Americans to have seen the marvels of the National Parks." UNION TRUST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C. The Senator spoke of the increasing popularity of these great Government reservations of the West and said that while the number of visitors last year was only 186,000, the number of visitors this year was 224,000. But, he declared, the value of the parks cannot be estimated in mere sordid dollars and cents; for if the city parks can be said to be the lungs of the city, the national parks can be said to be the lungs of the nation. MR. ENOS A. MILLS, ESTES PARK, COLORADO Mr. Enos A. Mills, of Estes Park, Colorado, well known as a lecturer and writer on nature subjects, was listened to with rapt attention as he told a delightful story of "Wild Life in a National Park." 1912 January 26, 1912. H/B1 C George B. Dorr sq. , 18 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Dear George: The Estate of George Homans who was the brother of Charles D. Homans of Schooner Head, belongs one-third to the widow of his brother John, one-third to the children of his brother John who inherit through their Aunt Sarah, and one-third to the Priestley grand- children of Charles D. Homans. It includes in a general way 200 acres of land suitable for the Trustees of the Public Reservations and 2 acres of land which make a hole in the Hadley lot on School- House Hill St. between Otter Creek Road and the old site of the Otter Creek post office. To perfect title would require probate in Maine on a number of the persons in the line of title from George Homans. I want to buy the land on School House Hill so that it will not interfere with my larger lot which surrounds it from road to road. But I do not particularly want to bear all the expense of perfecting the title on the 202 acres in order to get title to the 2 acres which are of little value. It occurs to me that if I could have a very moderate cash offer from the Trustees of Public Reservations to take care of the minors and perhaps of one or two of the children of John Homans who would not otherwise convey, I could combine that with my own desire to purchase and perfect title to the whole. I would like to see you about this at an early date as if the title is to be perfected, there are a lot of minor jobs to be done. Yours very truly, L Herry Lynam] June, 1938 Acquisition of Sargent and Pemetic Mountains. The trubles The two extensive mountain tracts -- Jordan and Sargent Mountains on the west and Pemetic Mountain on the east of Jordan Pond -- purchased by the summer 1912 resident group at Seal Harbor and given to the Trustees of Public Reservations were not only of great help to the Trustees in widening their holdings but vitally important to Seal Harbor for the protection of its water supply and for the control and freedom of use of the trails over these two splendid mountain masses, rising directly from the lake upon either side. The one upon the western side, of little timber value, had been purchased for a song in early days by Mr. Charles T. How, an enthusiastic summer visitor at Bar Harbor, at a time before there was any hotel or summer resi- dential development on the Island's southern shore, and held by him idle until he had died some years before. The land on the eastern side of Pemetic Mountain had been acquired at the commencement of the boom-time 2. period at Bar Harbor by a group of outside speculators, who planned a summer resident colony in the Bubble Pond valley separating Pemetic Mountain from the southern ridge of Cadillac, and who built a road into it -- the Boyd Road -- then dropped the project when the speculative enthusiasm of the boom-time waned, abandoning the land. This tract, extending across the Boyd Road Valley and over the bare, steep western slope of Cadillac Mountain, I purchased, giving it to the Trustees, lay partly in the town of Eden, now Bar Harbor, and partly in that of Mount Desert, in which Seal Harbor lay. We divided it accordingly, the Seal Harbor summer resident group acquiring what lay on their side of the Town line, and I what lay upon the other, but both tracts went to increase the holdings of the Trustees of Public Reservations. The Bubbles, sharp little conical hills at the northern end of Jordan Pond, not lying in either town, I acquired from a member of the old Hadlock family of Cranberry Isles, whose first ancestor in the region established a cooperage business there and employed upon it the earliest representative of the Clement 3. family, who, as he worked at his trade, a descendant, Dr. Clement of Seal Harbor, owner of its one remaining hotel, told me, used to look across at the beautiful little Seal Harbor Bay with its bordering woods and thought how pleasant a place it would be to live in. And presently, taking a day off, sailed across and found all as his mind had pictured it, establishing his home upon it, purchasing two hundred acres -- of whom I am not clear. The land on the western side of Jordan Pond had splendid trees upon it, pines and others, as the great, slowly rotting stumps cut, often, when the snow was high, still show. The lake, spring fed, deep and cool, with little water flowing in, is naturally a splendid trout pond, needing protection from over-fishing only to remain SO. The whole shore, from here to Southwest Harbor, with good sheltered harborage throughout and Somes Sound fiord opening through the mountains at its midst, is one of the most attractive sections on the coast which, excellently located for pleasure boating which has taken strong root there lately and bids fair to become a notable and permanent yachting center. 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At the same parking plans and other changes at time, the number of rooms in the ho his West Street Hotel before the build tel would be reduced from more than ing is approved for use, officials say. 100 to 85, in order to comply with the 100 Mr. Walsh's property manager, parking ordinance, which calls for Eben Salvatore, was issued a letter one space for each room from code enforcement officer An- Mr. Salvatore told the Islander Ads! gela Chamberlain on March 28 de earlier this year that the parking lot tailing the need to amend the hotel's along Rodick Street would be tem original plans. An application from porary measure while Mr. Walsh and Mr. Walsh's North South Construc- the town tried to work out an agree tion company to the planning board ment for a public/private parking ga 2 subsequently was submitted on April rage on the site of the town's Backyard 4. Applications to other boards have parking lot behind the hotel The area not been addressed. along Redick Street would be much Among key changes at the West better suited for commercial develop- Pages 6-10 Street Hotel site is the elimination ment than parking garage, he said. of plans to build a two-store parking Town councilors have discussed garage along Rodick Street for hotel the public/private garage concept in guests, Mr. Walsh now intends to pave see WALSH page 16 Titanic disaster echoes on MDI Schools chief banks By Earl Brechlin Arthur R. Rverson. senior mem- of recent feature films and books ebrechlin@mdisiandsr.com ber of the Mount Desert Reading about the disaster. most know the Room, and Clarence Moore, a core story of how the ship, can E xactly 100 years ago Sun former judge 2% the Bar Harbor sidered unsinkable, hit an iceberg on second job offer day. the infamous RMS Horse Show. on its maiden vovage to New York Titonic plunged to the bot The man who owned the and sank in just few hours The By Dick Broom people on Cape Ann. There are two 10m of the Atlantic, taking with White Star Line, which built and story was the biggest of its day and dbroom@mdislander.com schools in the Rockport school dis. 1,517 souls, changing the course operated the Titanic, was Bar Har breathless, flowery feature stories trict, an elementary school and a mid- of history on Mount Desert Is bon summer resident John Pier- about what happened, tales of BAR HARBOR - Rob Liebow, dle/high school. land in ways both obvious and pont Morgan. those who perished and first- superintendent of the Mount Des As the MDIRSS superintendent, sublime. The drama was real. the emo- hand accounts from those who ert Island Regional School System Mr. Liebow oversees the administra. Among the great liners' pas tion palpable. as newspaper re survived. ran for weeks in nearly (MDIRSS), withdrew as 3 finalist for tion of nine schools in eight TOWTIS. He sengers were some of Mount porters in the days before com- every newspaper in the county, the superintendent's job in Ashland, has been the superintendent here since Desert Island's most well-known mercial radio and TV unearthed including the Bar Harbor Record. Mass., on Tuesday afternoon, just 2004. summer residents and others and shared the last words and An unbylined story in the May hours before the Ashland school com- Before withdrawing from considers with family ties here includ deeds of people for whom money I edition recounted the arrival of mittee met to select a new superinten- ation in Ashland, he was one of four Play ing John lacob Astor, Isidor and and power provided no insulation survivors in New York. dent. finalists for the superintendent's posi- kla Straus. lack Thayer whose from death in the icy grip of the "Never in maritime history However, he remained as one of tion there. daughter still resides in Hulls North Atlantic. there been sadder scene than Ball! IWD finalists for the superistendent's Mr. Liebow has said be decided to Cove and George Dunton Thanks to publicity about the witnessed Thursday night when job in Rockport. Mass. The school explore the possibility of accepting the Widener Others included anniversary, and the popularity see TITANIC page 6 board there was scheduled to make its posts in Massachusetts to be closer to choice Wednesday night. family who live in that area. Rockport is a town of about 7,000 education.fenceviewer.com 1 Bill to toughen tree Pages 10-11 growth tax system fails Legislature calls for study of compliance Analysis by Dick Broom required that anyone who en the Legislature dbroom @ mdislander com rolled property in the free growth Gov. Paul LePage has not in- program in the future would dicated whether be intends le Editor's note: This is the sec have to be "actually engaged in sign the bill into law. Home and of is two-purt report on the harvesting timber and not using Maine's tree growth law pro state's Tree Growth Tax Program the land as property tax shelter vides large tax breaks for people Sweet and land on Mount Desert Island without harvesting. who set aside acreage for "has that is enrolled in the program. The amended version of the vesting of forest products that the Maine Legislature failed bill. which was enacted by both have commercial value." But that Home last week to pass what the House and Senate on April doesn't mean timber harvesting would have been the most directs the Maine Forest Service is required A bulletin on the law significant reform in the 40-year 10 conduct "periodic random issued by the Maine Bureau of ISLANDER PHOTO BY bick BROOM history of Maine's Tree Growth sampling" of land enrolled in the Revenue Services in 2010 listed SECTION Tax Law But did approve two- tree growth program to assess the many types of forest products DREAMWEAVERS Third grade students Leuo Nelson, left. and Alex Burnett 2 year study of the level of compli- rate of compliance. The Forest that could be harvested in com make dreamcatchers during Arts Week at Mount Desert Elementary School on Tuesday. ance with the law statewide Service would have until March pliance with the law including The original bill would have 1. 2014 to report its findings to see TREES page 13 Pages 13-16 Copper, antique thefts Almanac draw grand jury charges By Mark Good attorney Mary Kellett. The metal Mr. Dicesare is accused of APRIL MOONS mgood@mdisiandar.com was never recovered starting the Feb. 6 fire at 24- Mr. Chakirelis was arrested foot camper on the Millvale ELLSWORTH - A Trenton in October after allegedly steal- Road that was being used as man accused of thefts at two ing items from the Old Cream residence causing more than 10:05 a.m. Ellsworth businesses is among ceryantiques store. He reportedly $8,000 in damage. According to 4:49 a.m. 10:47 a.m the 17 people indicted last week aroused suspicion while trying Ms. Kellett. witnesses claim Mr. 5:34 p.m 11:13 p.m by a Hancock County grand to pry open display case in the Dicesare was intoxicated and 11:52 A jury. store. He is accused of taking decided to burn the camper be Micah Chakirelis, 27, was three Huramel figurines with cause the person living there had 12:21 am indicted April 5 on two counts total value of $3,000, silver bar owed him $50 for two years. 7:43pm 12:56 p.m of theft by unauthorized taking reties valued at $90 and it $999 Mr. Dicesare has been incar- 1:25 a.m. or transfer and single counts of diamond ring. cerated at the Hancock County 1:54p.m April 17 2:23 a.m. theft be deception and criminal The theft charges are class lail since his arrest in February 9:30p.m 2:46p.m mischief. crimes, panishable by up to five unable to raise the $5,000 cash 3:14am ISLANDER PHOTO BY POBERT LEVIN April 18 9:54 a.m Thetheft by deception charge years in prison. bail set by the court. Ms Kellett 10:14 p.m. 3:33 p.m WALK THIS WAY Crews from Gardner Construction begin work on a complete stems from an incident in Au- The grand jury also indicted said. WWW.FENCEVIEWER.COM gust. in which Mr. Chakirehs al an Orrington man who is ac The state fire marshal's office rebuild of the walking path leading to the Conners Emerson School in Bar Harbor legedly charged $2,000 worth of cused of setting fire to camper investigated the fire. Arson is on Tuesday The project includes a new drop-off zone along Edem Street, and is being copper flashing and wire at EBS trailer in Bucksport. class punishable by up paid for with a $174,000 grant from the Maine Department of Transportation. Building Supplies to his former Andrew Dicesare, 24, was in- prison. Construction is expected to last into late May. employer. said assistant district dicted on two counts of 16 91759 7 Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, Tremont. renton, Cranberry Frenchboro and PAGE 6 SECTION 1 Mount Desert Islander THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2012 TITANIC/1 Infamous 1912 maritime disaster took cream of MDI summer society the Cunard steamer Carpathin Eventually he managed to get came to her dock at her pier in "I will not be to an overturned lifeboat where New York bearing the survivors he spent the rest of the night of the passengers and crew of the lost Titanic, the story began. separated from with other shocked survivors. Newspaper accounts from TITANIC "Of these there were but pitiful my husband. As the time outline what lack said 662 left. or less than one third of he witnessed as the ship went those aboard the world's great we have lived, down. The shouts from those World's est `unsinkable' floating palace thrown into the ky water Many of the survivors were ill. SO will we die, swelled into one long continu- WHITE STAR Largest Lince some of them dangerouslv so. ous wailing chant. he said. others WCTC in state of nerveus together." sounded like locasts collapse from the shock. and on a midsummer night in the still others were reported on the Ida Straus woods," he continued "This verge of insanity. terrible cry lasted for 20 or 30 "Among them were newly minutes, gradually dying away, made widows, while many, per- as one after another could no haps is majority, had been torn scribed Mrs. Astor when she longer withstand the cold and from loved ones in the last black turned to land. exposure." hour before the gigantic liner "Pule, trembling and appar Other survivors said the had gone down' ently ill, Mrs. John Jacob Astur deathly silence that quickly A gallant last stand was one of the first survivors of settled over the sea shortly of Perhaps one of the most well the wreck to pass down the Car- terwards was the worst sound known Bar Harbor summer pathia's gangplank, She stepped of all. residents.org the Titanic was John from the Carpathia wearing Young lack's father, John Jacob Astor IV also known as long black astrakhan coat. Borland Thayer. Jr., perished "Colonel Astor for his service in small toque covered by a blue in the sinking. lack's mother, the Spanish American War. chitfon veil, and at her throat re- Marion, survived and was re The 47-year old Mr. Aston posed large diamond and pearl united with her son aboard the described as the liner's wealthiest sunburst. Carpathia, SOUTHAMPTON passenger. was returning from Mrs. Astor was completely In interviews a few years NEW YORK an extended honeymoon trip to broken down by the harrow ago, Mrs. Frazier said her VIA CHERBOUNG QUEENSTOWN Europe and Egypt with his new ing experience she had passed grandmother never recovered bride, old Madeline who through and the loss of her hus Isidor and Ida Straus from the loss of her husband. was pregnant with their son. Ac band, and when asked to say He was last seen. according cording to newspaper accounts something cried in heartbroken to family stories, standing be at the time the divorced Colo tones; *I can't can't are un- Mrs. Astor was too stunned at ship slowly slipped into the sea neath the ship's second funnel ished possession of George's lege of the Atlantic trustee. and nel Astor met the attractive lass speakably ill!" first to recall any of the incidents "They saw John Jacob Astor and with George D. Widener of Phil grandson, the late Fitz Eugene his wife Beth, an art patron and when he hosted her family at his Mrs. Astor's mental suffer. of the sinking ship Other pas- Major [Archibald] Butt standing adelphia, another man with ties Dixon, who summered in Win master gandener, lived for many Bar Harbor estate, Islecote. the ing was terrible, though physi sengers said that Mrs. Astor dis together on the Titanic's deck to Northeast Harbor ter Harbor. Upon his death in years in Somesville previous summer. cally she was not much harmed played remarkable courage dur the Bar Harbor Record reported. A promise to return 2006, it was passed OR to his What if? The paper recounted Mr. Physicians gave orders that net ing the days on the Carpathia, They must have gone to death A survivor of the Titunic daughter. Ellen. Local legend in Bar Harbor Astor's last moments as heroic. ther she nor her maid should walking about the decks and try together." disaster recalled that Eleanor Together until the end holds that the High Scas man- "John Jacob Astor, handing his be permitted to talk about the ing 10 cheer up other survivors Along with Mrs. Astor. her Elkins Widener did not want One of the most enduring sion on Schooner Head Road wife into the beat despite her Titanic and this rule was strictly whose surrow seemed beyond nurse and maid survived. The leave behind her son, Harry stories about the strength of the was built by man for his fiancee protestations. allaying her fears observed. "Nevertheless, before relief. family's valet and pet dog did Elkins Widener, and husband, human spirit to emerge from the who reportedly was one of the by asking politely if he could the order had been given, she According le one account, not. Mr. Astor's body was recov George Widener, as she was led Titanic disaster involved the un- women from first class be allowed to accompany het told Vincent Astor (her hus- "Colonel Astor was walking ered with more than $2,500 in Lifeboat yielding devotion of an elderly on the Titanic. While that wom for her protection in what she from previous mar- the Jeck at the time the Titanic cash still in his pockets. "Mrs. Widener kissed her couple who refused to part, even an, Edith Evans, was friend of deemed fraul and tlimsy shelter some of her memories strick the iceberg. He was ap family torn asunder husband goodhye." said Rob when faced with certain death. the man, Rudolph Brunnow from the sea. as compared to the thought she recalled seeing proached by frantic waiter and For Lois Frazier of Hulls ert Daniels "He told her not to Isidor Straus. one of the officials at the Bar Harbor His magnificent palace she was leav Astor by her side. just to put on his life belt. The Cove, the story of the Titanic is worry, as it was possible that all founders of Macy's Department torical Society said there is no ing against her will. and calmly she got into one of the had several in his hands. not just an abstract drama it would be saved. and the danger Store in New York City. and evidence they planned to marry. turning to help other women She imagined he was safe Colonel Astor waved lum away. changed her family forever. did not seem great." Both father his wife Ida were returning to While the loss of those with and children to safety when re- it was only when she "Pooh" he said. This is noth Mrs. Frazier's father. then and son died when the Titunic Ameria from Germany ties to MDI produced ripples fused, this permission which he the Carpathia that she ing There is no need of life belts." 17-year-old Jack Thaver III, was down. As the ship's crew was filling that are obvious with the demise probably never expected. is one realized he was not among the Colonel Astor reportedly was one of the few survivors. One of The May 1, 1912, edition of up the fewlifeboatsavailable,Mr of any prominent resident, the splendid example: rescued. last seen on the starboard bridge young Jack's grandfathers was the Harbor Record carried an Straus Was reportedly told that echoes of the Titunic's sinking Reporters in New York de most of the survivors, wing smoking a cigarette as the Alexander Cassatt, owner of account of the last hours of Ma he could accompany his wife. can be seen as well in who sur the Pennsylvania Railroad and Butt and Mr. Widener, telling He refused, saying that younger vived brother to famous painter Mary of "George D. Widener, going men on the ship should go first. Jane Gray of Great Cran- Cassart. after women of his acquaintance He then helped the couple's maid betry Island wonders "what il?' Historic Record Jack became separated and guiding them through the Ellen Bird. into a lifeboat. Mrs. in connection with her grand from his parents and, unable crowd to the boat with coolness Straus reportedly handed the mother who canceled her reser to get into a lifeboat, eventually which knew no fear Every fur coal saying. "I won't vations on the Titanic at the last jumped into the swirling North heart must swell as imagination need this anymore." minute More 'wireless' operators urged Atlantic and began swimming conjures the figure of Major Ar- Mrs. Straus was offered seats "Mv grandmother had reser- away from the hull. dishald Butt, in whom the Arrry in other lifeboats but refused to vations on the Titanic to come to The ship seemed to be sur- of the United States may take a without her husband and de- America from Scotland with her rounded with glare. and stood glowing pride as attaches to cided to stay on the ship "I will six children ages 2 to 13 years By Deborah Dyer tached to anyone except those out of the night as though she the most illustrious of its heroes. not be separated from my hus. old," she said in response to a Bar Harbor Historical Society "Wireless is a authorities who failed to insure was on fire The mass of pou- who lost their lives fighting for band. As we have lived, so will request for Titanic stories on the that every wireless instrument ple on board were surging back, their country. His cheery Good we die, together," she is quoted Islander's Facebook page. "Her From the pages of the Bar most important on the seas could be able at always back toward the floating bve, God bless you, to each de- saying husband. my grandfather, was Harbor Record from May 1, all times to receive and deliver stern." he later recalled "The parting boat with its quota of The couple, married 41 years. already here. At the last minute. 1912 ne of the lessons of the factor and the messages. rumble and roar continued with women and children will not was last seen. sitting side by side she changed her mind because The Marcon Wireless Tele- even louder distinct wrenching Titanic to which special most valuable be forgotten when the words of in deck chairs, holding hands, couple of the children had graph Company has trained and learings of boilers and en many of the military heroes now and then a large wave washed chicken pox and she was afraid attention is called by and turned out something like gines from their beds Suddenly recorded in history have been them into the sea. In the 1997 that she would get turned away. the London papers is that more asset of those who 1.000 operators of these about the whole superstructure of the erased from memory." film "Titanic" the couple is de She came instead month later Marconi (radio) operators are 500 are employed on the ships ship appeared to split, well for- News accounts at the time re- go down to the picted holding hands together on the S.S. Caledonia. Three wanted the Standard says: of the British mercantile ma ward to midship. and bow or ported that the senior Widener bed in their stateroom at the more children were then born in "The fact that the first call rine. British ships filled with for help sent out by the Titanic sea in ships." buckle upwards. removed an emerald ring from end. America. one of which was my wireless installations number One of the ship's funnels fell. his linger, placed it in his wife's More than 6,000 people at mother," she explained. was missed by the steamer Pa about 450. This means that narrowly missing him. ``The hand and told her he would re- tended the couple's memorial is definitely kind of weird risian, because the operator about 50 ships carry two op suction of it drew me down and trieve it when they met again in service. because if she had come on the off duty, throw glaring light erators and can maintain an down struggling and swimming York. The Straus' grandson, the late Titanic, might not even be upon still another lamentable efficient service. The remain- take their chance. The practically spent, be said. The ring later became cher Donald Straus, a former Col. here today." and reprehensible deficiency or any other authority that is in those regulations which are framed with view to insuring making them efficient supposed to be framed and that the fullest possible benefit would be exactly the salary and enforced for the purpose of shall be derived from this. the board of one additional opera- guarding the safety of ships and most valuable of life saving ap: tor. install on vessel wire- their human freights pliances. less instrument which may at "After what has happened The Parisian was only 100 any moment prove the means since the inception of the Mar miles away from the scene of of saving hundreds of lives and coni system of wireless telegra- the disaster and did not hear take no notice of it in hours phy and its application to the Titunic's call for help be is little less ridiculous than put going vessels no one will dis- her operator was not ting lookout in the crows nest pute that the wireless is most duty. No blame is to be at- by day and sending him IC bed important factor and the most tached to the operator. He had by night without replacing him. valuable asset of those who go hard day of constant work "Vessels should be outfitled down to the sea in ships. The and his captain had ordered with the necessary apparatus wireless has already saved hun to bed. and provide as many operators dreds of human lives and the same circumstances requested. So far the demand dealt with in a proper, common 20 ships might have been 20 has not been equal to the sup- sense manner. will save hun miles from the Titanic and not plv. Most of the large vessels dreds more. known that turn of the like the Luisitunia, Mauretania. "Yet there is not single reg helm would have saved 1,000 Franconia, Cedric and Olympia ulation of the Board of Trade no blame could carry two operators John Jacob Astor George Widener John B. 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KNOWLTON COUNSELOR AT LAW Ellsworth, Me., May 13, 1912. Mr. George B. Dorr, Bar Harbor, Maine, Dear Mr. Dorr:- I made a trip to-day to the western side of the Island in an automobile. The roads are very rough and in addition it has rained about all day. Measures must be taken to get these roads in better shape. I am writing the Selectmen and Road Commissioners of these towns suggesting to them to put on the split-log drag immediately. The most of the way the roads are free of rocks and only need to have them dragged with a split-log to fill up all the holes and smooth the ruts out. This is incidental, but it will help property in that locality very much. I met Ober by appointment at Pretty Marsh and with him went all over the property, or over enough of it SO I could tell who owns the whole of it. Ober has previously been trying to buy parts of it from time to time, but with no success. He is somewhat familiar with the prices they ask for it. The following information I gathered from Ober and various sources:- The smaller point, including everything to the westward of the first narrows, (not the Squid Cove narrows, but the narrows nearest the head- land) being the main headland and the point extending south from it and con- taining in the whole some three-hundred acres, or, possibly, more, is owned largely by the Samuel estate and the Maine Company, which is a corporation organized by Samuel and the stock of which is probably owned by him. The whole ownership of Samuel and this Company is not in this headland, I think some fifty acres lying to the eastward of it. In addition to the ownership of Samuel and the Company I find that the point extending south from the big headland, which point contains about fifty acres, is owned one undivided half by Daniel S. Emery, Charles S. Cook, Eben B. Cook and some others, of Portland (the other half is owned by Samuel). About a year ago Ober offered these Portland people $100.00 an acre for their holdings and it was refused. Of course Ober regarded $100.00 as a moderate price. It is certainly a very fine point. Next north of this point comes an ownership in Thomas W. Burr and others, of Bangor. They own about fifteen acres. It was bought by them a good many years ago during an activity in land on that coast and pro- bably stands them at a pretty high figure, but it does not follow that they would insist upon that figure if they had an opportunity to sell. The other side of the Burr ownership towards the east and running down towards what I call the narrows, being a low place, which is the shortest distance across from water to water, comes Allen Freeman with about fifty acres and a very good and fairly large white house and some out-build- Dorr 2- ings. This can be bought and probably at a fair price. The only trouble would be that he might think the house was worth more than it would be worth to any purchaser. It is likely that a purchaser of the whole tract buying would want Freeman to remain right there. Certainly he or somebody would probably have to live in the vicinity. Going north from the Burr land, which comes next the southern point, there is on a summit overlooking a large territory a small lot of an acre and ninety-eight rods owned by Ephraim Freeman with a building on it. This goes down to the water and takes the summit and he asks $1200.00 for the land and buildings. Going north again you go over some Samuel land and at the very end of the point on the north is a small lot owned by the heirs of L. B. Wyman and by heirs of Dr. Bridgham. I know the active one of the Wyman heirs and the Bridgham heirs are represented here by Mr. F. L. Mason, a Lawyer. Ober has previously had some talk with Mason in regard to selling and offered $200.00 for the interest represented by him, but could not buy it for that. I do not know just how large it is. It is quite small. Alanson Phillips, formerly of Ellsworth, now of Boston, owns one acre near this point. He was a class-mate of mine in College and it is probable that I could buy this at a fair price. This Phillips' lot came out of the Barren tract, which tract was acquired by Samuel. The town road runs right down through this property to an old wharf on the shore. I am told that the Lorings have desired to buy something in this vicinity for the purpose of an automobile station. The Lorings own half or two-thirds of Bartlett's Island, which is directly across. This is a very beautiful country where I have been and it pro- bably can all be purchased, most of it for a reasonable price. If your friend wants to buy it I should recommend that he proceed as follows:- Make a trade to buy the Samuel interest first and do not let it be known that he has made the purchase when it is made. If it were known that the Samuel interest were sold rumors would start about development there, which would greatly tend to increase the asking price of the other property. At present it is rather dead stuff and if authority were given to buy for cash the rest of it could be picked up, some of it quite cheap and probably all of it, 80 that the price would average low. If I were to engineer the thing I should buy part of it through Ober, who is closely in touch with some of the owners and Bome of it I would buy direct myself. of course the titles would have to be carefully examin- ed and some examination should be made before much of anything further is done, some of the ownerships I have mentioned above may have changed since the local parties knew anything about them. It is not only advisable, but necessary to employ Ober to some ex- Dora 3- tent, because he not only feels that he has sort of a lien on some of this property where he has been trying to buy it some time, but it is probable that some of the owners like Freeman would not sell, except through or by consulting Ober. You should pay Ober a commission of 5% on what he could buy under my direction and such reasonable bill for his services and expenses in con- nection with the balance of the property as he would have. He would feel that I was, in a sense, taking this opportunity away from him, did I not have the opportunity to tell him that he would be paid. You understand that he and I have been operating in real estate together for some years and while I knew nothing special about these offers he has made in years past, if they had been accepted he would have expected me to take half of the proposition with him. I have confidence in his judgment in these things and would take half of anything he would buy, the same as he would take half of what I bought in that general vicinity. So far as I am concerned, of course, any interest that I had in the pretty Marsh point would be 80 remote and vague that I would consider it of no value and would cheerfully, on your account, turn over any advnatage I had growing out of the association with Ober. I forgot to mention Ober has been making attempts to buy the Samuel property and it is his judgment that if a man went right to Philadelphia and saw the Trustee and the other party interestdithat you could make a better trade and that the property could be bought at a very reason- able figure and I judge, by the figures that you gave me, that that is the fact. Yours very truly, Winters AVIII Mary (Howard) Murray to George B. Dorr Ref J24/7 Beckley the Manor Overstrand Norfolk July 16, 1912. My dear Mr. Dorr: Happily we were still in Oxford when Mr. and Mrs. Eno brought your introductions of January. The time, however, was very short and Gilbert full of engagements (I think they telephoned one morning and were going away the next and he was engaged for dinner) so all we could do was to ask them to tea and have a good talk. Thank you for all the trouble you took in writing and in tell- ing U.S about them. We were so glad to see them, but it seems funny to think that we have seen you since you wrote those letters. We had a happy time in America after seeing you. It was very arduous at first, so many lectures and so much company and so much travelling, but the kindness and sympathy and appreciation were a good tonic and I am very sure my husband came away better than he went. (July 16, 1912) 2. We returned to a shortened and very full term and have only lately got away to this seaside town, when -- in this heat-wave -- Gilbert had to go to London yesterday to preside over a conference of Im- perial teachers discussing the Classics I hope you are well and enjoying your seaside. Always sincerely yours, Mary Murray. Mrs. Gilbert Herray Rosalind and Howard COPY. Bar Harbor, Maine. August 26th, 1912. Dr Charles W. Eliot, Asticou, Maine. Dear President Eliot, This is what I think with regard to the automobile situa- tion here: that it will be idle to attempt to exclude them from Bar Harbor beyond the present year; that it has been plainly inevitable for the last two years at least that the town must in the end be opened to them and that the only way to have postponed such opening was by the substitution of a special road to bring the touring public to the town and take them out - a compromise whose oppor- tunity has now gone by, I think; that there will be gain as well as loss in their coming, wider possibilities of residence, of social intercourse and of excursion; that the detriment which they will cause when once the change is made has been exaggerated, while whether their coming be a gain or loss any scheme of permanent exclusion has now become Utopian. Opinion here among the summer residents is no longer by any means unanimous in opposition to their coming but much divided, many wanting them for reasons of quicker communicati on or economy and some for preference and the increasing habit of their use elsewhere. A large majority of the townspeople here are strongly in favor now of opening, because they think it means increased prosperity to the town, and in this I believe them 2 to be right so far at least as hotel life is concerned, or a wider residential life. That the lesislature at its next meeting will give the town back its local option in the matter I also believe to be unquestionable, and that any further contest must be made not before it but at town-meeting. Personally, I have taken no attitude et ther in favor of their introduction or in opposition to it since I S8W you last, a year ago. I made my contribution to the subject in urging the adoption of a special-road plan which should carry with it a general agree- ment securing so far as possible postponement of further introduc- tion for a term of years, and in the survey which I had made for such a road. The present condition seemed to me two years ago the obvious alternative to such a scheme; complete exclusion, impracti- cable. Now, the attempt to prolong it in our town would only result, in my judgment, in prolonging bitter feeling and an uncertainty not permitting us to reap the benefit of either course. That any effec- tive opposition can be made at Bar Harbor to next year's opening I do not believe, so large the number of those opposed before who have changed their attitude either with regard to the matter itself or with regard to the usefulness and desirability of further opposi- tion. Believe me ever Yours sincerely, [George B.Dorr] Note: See 2/7/1911 G.B.D. letter to Charles Shea,this Series. cauncil entrance to we Nursery con opposite Field Developments for the season's Creek George B. Dorr, always alert and haved pened their Meyer D D4 of Long Schooner Head Roads, has been for everything that is for the better- rooms in the Butterfield Block the Congregation opened for this purpose to which ment of Bar Harbor residents both Main street. from the round and summer. has been cordially invited to indicated wife and leads there trained and competent doing great real to make beautiful W, H. Puffer lost fine yearling services and to hear Dr. Meyer florists will be in constant atten- and fine thea thletic field on lower colt on Saturday Its death preacher and dance, as at the Nurseries store in Main street cansed by eating green which and previous seasons, while orders giv- Just where the brook crosses the has been thoughtlessly placed in spiritual Insight and rare felicity en by telephone at he Nurseries' of- street a great deal of tree planting box and set on the ground in the the today expression gives him a place foremost known fice. 16-2, or sent by mail, will re- has been done. A large number of pasture near the stable. A. as they Among the religious leaders of our celve prompt attention, delivery be- fine whitea shes have been set out three of for day, ing made as usual by the Nurseries, creating a path with arow of trees Mr. Eben L. Hodgkins of Trenton and Miss while orders for decorative work one either side, from the brook was in town over Sunday visiting Joy's rived and MT. KEBO SPRING WATER of every kind will be carried out by Northwards to Livingstone Road. on Greeley Avenue. ste for the haven You will drink to your own health skillful men. This tree is one of the finest in July 3rd, at Kebo Spring Water is your The new entrance to the Nurser- New England and Dorr knows Some men miss the comfort they Dancing nd death summer beverage. See that a liber ies is directly oposite the junction of a specimen that is eight feet could have out of light clothes in public. y friends al supply of it is kept on hand at your of the roads leading to Otter Creek through the butt, 24 feet in circum- the summer months. The Hart see them home and office properly cooled; thes on the right, and the Schooner Head ference. The white ash is one of Schaffner & Marx goods that H. S. A strange een great you can quench your thirst at any road on the left. Part oli the the valuable timber trees. Just Nason & Son is selling would be a the sights was Mr. time without fear of unpleasant con- spruce hedge has been cut away and West of this group of ashes, and relief. where the T sequences. Mt. Kebo Spring Water two heavy stone posts from Mr. skirting the brook, is a pine grove dawned upo is that delicious and pure water which Dorr's quarry will be set to, mark group of yellow birches has also Allan W: Milliken was chaplain of that probabl ridge and is so popular here and in the best the entrance, Upon driving through of very thriving young trees. A his class at the commencement ex- for the Tow York ar- metropolitan homes. It is 4 truly directly at the right, will be seen been planted nearby. Standing at the Foot of School street and look- ercises at Kent's Hill seminary. erly the Tow ideal table water. healthful in every a photograph exhibition gallery, the Shore P summer drop. and can be had conveniently about forty-eight feet long. R. H. ing across the athletic field Northerly cottage Miss Alice Lord, a former Bar on application to the Mt. Spring Wa- Moon is the contracter, carrying it will be seen that Mr. Dorr has planted three rows of trees on the Harbor girl, who has been teaching The pasto on Way- ter Co. Harden Park. will ar- out Architect Fred Savage's plans, in East Corinth academy last preaches his East side of School street making winter was visitin relatives in town day morning AUGUSTA HOSE REEL RUNNING electricians. In this new building a double Mail across the Field. When these trees have several years' Thursday and Friday. She left Sat TEAM WILL COMPETE AT BAR will be on exhibition for the public urday for Southwest Harbor. The Mothe ork came HARBOR a magnificent collection of photo- growth this will be one of the most 2:30 at the last week The Kennebec Journal, August2, graphs that, without a doubt. is charming sections of the Field. J. H. Sawyer and Perley P. Pond sewing for cupy the unique in this country. Mr. Dorr On Ledgelawn avenue there has says:- of Bar Harbor, Isaac T. Moore and story telling The hose reel running team of the has an unrivalled collection of pho- been planted on the Field a large George E. Turner of Northeast Har- tographs of the Wild National Parks number of white spruce which will Augusta fire Department, which will .bor were among those initiated into Robert E servants of the West and a great many pho- make a beautiful green background compete. July 4, at Bar Hail has the mysteries of Mystic Shrine in visiting frie open up been selected by P. Edward Duffi- tukgraphs of flowers. The gallery both for the people who dwell there ing. Harrison Wakefield, James Shea day mornin; for the who has been selected as captain and 1g ideally located and from its win- and for the beautifying of the Field Dr. Hinch, William Pierce and G. land, dows the visitors will have a view itself. manager by the Fire Apartment E. Marcyes also attended the Shrine Mrs. A. Fourteen of the 22 men chosen were of the planted grounds of the nur- Near the brook there a notable lit- meeting in Bangor. spending th series, immediately North of it, the tle grove of arbor vitae containing G out for practice Wednesday night, or coast arriver distant Gouldsboro range off hills, some very fine large trees. A large Sewall street. using the hydrant the corner of Winthrop and Sewall number of willows not native, of Miss Margaret Koch, formerly field last Saturda 1 Meeting with a stretch of blue water between secretary of c. E. for Maine, now of the Grand July 15th. in the far away distance. The room Asia originally and rapid and sturdy streets. Unusually fast time was will have one half width petitions growers are also here. the Bethel Bible school, Spencer, in Arizona, of Arts. in the practice run. Practice will All in als the Athletic Field takes Mass began her duties as pastor for gon, and W 11 be an again be held on Bewall street, Fro set from the wall, Your in number. on new aspects of attractiveness and the summer months on Sunday the Canadia ning and day night, while, next week, the boys each section with its own window. meeting. giving double wall space for the beauty yearly and in time be a park morning, June 16. see the glac will come down onto Water street tains. Whi legro and for practice, in order to get access hanging of photograjhs, and in each of exceptional value under the expert Addie Bowden, the little six year urday. Ju up in tomed to the concrete pavement upos little stall-like alcove there will be management of landscape gardeners of old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. heavily in/t oversight which they will have to run at Bal a table on which books and pictures wide experience and, sound taste. Bowden, 9 Albert Meadow is in the the hotel a of Prin- Harbor. also Include the wild flowers of New Bar Harbor hospital for perhaps order. LAST WEEK'S PRIMARIES Institute. The members selected for the team England as well as garden plants. three weeks. of this are: P. Edward Duffy. William and all will be ready for the public Moniday. June 17 A C a notable Leighton, George Hutchinson, Fred to visit by the first of July. The result of the Republican vote Shirley McFarland who has been re issue. erick Morton, Roy Thayer. Earle A shady walk connects this build- CC at the primaries at Bar Harbor Mon- employed this winter in a Hartford Harvey Lancelot Cooper, Berry ing with the other buildings and market Hartford, Conn., returned Editor of R day was Burleigh, 193: Heaths 50; lis, Fred Thompson, William Town greenhouses of the nurseries, pass- on the Morso Friday for a &hort va- We wish Powers 17, in the senatorial contest. will give send, A. Parsons, W. Wall, Lewis ing by the planted beds and taking For governor. Haines received 210; cation. yor many r Forsyth. William Corbett, Frederick the visitor to the great nursery plots we witness the home Boothby, 86; Shaw 18. dd. "Eeg- that cover so many acres. driving on *Chase, Earle Grenier. Everett McDon Callahan had 295 for state auditor sadays in ald, Charles Breen, Frederic Holder. To the left of this building and to The work off grading the grounds namly. the In the senatorial contest, Hannibal ptions $5 / the North of it, that is just to the ros John O'Brien (mascot). An opening Hamlin had 246. are open left of the entrance, is latticed over- on High street is nearing comple- The family remains on the team for a few more head screen forty feet long, to be The vote for state senators was, tion. and the grounds will be much of five Chatto, 72: Hagerthy, 80; Patten 232; streaming good runners but they will have be given covered with canvas, and under this improved. The front is being raised get into the game at once, in order Savage was a pitat in artistically aranged banks, under above the sidewalk so that the water few house ay morn- to have the necessary practice. For county attornoy, Crabtree re- the careo f an expert, will be banked will run off, the fences straightened aged to S&\ in the William Leighton, who starts celved Googins, 240; Mason 16. the cut flowers for exhibition and new walks built, and the front of penniless al church. tle slowly. but is one of the faster Nate Mahoney had 246 for registry of the grounds will be covered with a Perhans L. B. Deasy, President Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. W. H. Davis, Vice President Fred C. Lynam, Treasurer Mt. Desert Block Vernon G. Wasgatt, Ass't Treas. Capital, $50,000.00 Surplus, $125,000.00 Bar Harbor, Maine, Sept. 17, 1912. George B. Dorr, Esq. Bar Harbor, Me. Dear Sir:- We enclose your € 1500 note dated October 26, 1911 marked paid having received from Mr. George J. Stebbins a check in payment. Yours truly, Asst. Treas. 1537.50 1500- Bar Harbor, Me., Oct 26 191/